Guidance for the preparation of a long-term financial plan
Valuable for local government organisations that need to manage long life infrastructure assets to provide services for their communities
Enable decision makers to be properly informed now and into the future ensuring equity and informed prioritisation so that the organisation can deliver its variety of services to a desired, affordable and sustainable level
Practice Note 6 has been developed by IPWEA in partnership with the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government. It has been funded through the Australian Government Local Government Reform Fund
LTFP Toolkit
To assist organisations to prepare a LTFP without use of proprietary software, IPWEA has devloped a simple excel based LTFP model
By using this model you can input financial projections and generate outputs in the form of Appendix 1 of the Practice Note
The model can be used as is, or may be adapted to specified requirements
The model consists of 15 worksheets
Requires only basic familiarity with Excel to
Included in the Toolkit is a 'How to Guide' to assist with the setup
Included in the download is the LTFP Toolkit & (Excel) How to Guide (pdf).