Finance professionals have a huge role to play in governance, accountability, annual reports and keeping accounts that inform public sector funding decisions in the future.
Worryingly, when combined with changes to public sector funding and service delivery, we also found the sector's ability to recover may be severely compromised.
Plans to provide £5bn of public sector funding to stave off recession will hurt the poorest in society the most, charities for low-income families have warned.
The budget for all four ceremonies more than doubled after the government agreed to provide an extra £41m from the £9.3bn public sector funding package.
With lower growth forecasts, extent of debt and the disruptive uncertainty of the vote for Brexit, room for extra public sector funding is limited.
When Charles came along at first, he pretended to be plain old Charlie, writing a book about public sector funding cuts.
And the reserves and transition funding with which many have got by during this period are "masking real reductions in public sector funding", so that "the real impact of the reduction in public sector funding may not become evident until 2015," the report found.
And if the subsequent fall in markets means that the gap of many pension liabilities have grown, any future claims that public sector funds are not being managed well will be met with derision from exasperated finance directors.
As ideas about how to support people with mental health problems changed and cuts were made in public sector funding, Mathews wanted to do something that would be more socially useful.
With unprecedented private and public sector funds pouring into environmental projects around the world, business leaders are asking which country is leading the green economy race and which markets offer the most attractive returns at least risk.
The National Audit Office last week warned there was a "real risk" that the £9.3bn public sector funding package for the Games would not prove sufficient given the soaring security costs and other potential risks.
