OSCR Scottish charity profile

Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

Known as CIPFA

ActiveCharity number SC037963
Registered21 March 2007
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formStatutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC037963
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
216
Postcode
E1 8AN

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The principal objects and purposes for which the Institute is hereby constituted are: (a) to advance the science of public finance and of accountancy and cognate subject as applied to all or any of the duties imposed upon and functions undertaken by public service bodies. (b)to promote public education therein. (c) to promote and to publish the results of studies and research work therein and in related subjects. (d) to advance and promote co-operation between accountancy bodies in any way. to advance and promote any scheme or schemes (howsoever constituted) which, as one or more of their objects, reviews, regulates or supplements in the public interest the establishment of standards by, and the training, regulatory and disciplinary activities and procedures of, any one or more accountancy bodies

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£30,881,000£27,947,00021623 September 2025
31 December 2023£28,181,000£28,111,00021619 September 2024
31 December 2022£28,483,000£27,341,00021621 September 2023
31 December 2021£26,603,000£23,129,00021621 September 2022
31 December 2020£26,417,000£23,575,00021610 September 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
77 Mansell Street, London
Website supplied to OSCR
www.cipfa.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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