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TreEnt Advisory Services' consultancy services are available to local government external stakeholders as well as to individual councils.

Quotations can be provided on application for work on projects, large or small, in the following fields:

Evaluation and benchmarking

funding policies
financing policies
operating expenditure policies
capital expenditure policies
financial governance methods and procedures.

Local Government Financial Monitoring and Reporting

the design and implementation of internal monitoring and reporting of a council's financial condition, both current and prospective
financial sustainability assessments.

Financial Health Checks for Individual Councils

TreEnt Advisory Services can undertake detailed financial analyses of individual councils at two levels:

a "standard" assessment (which relies of the council's own asset condition information); and
a "premium" assessment (offered only in conjunction with Review Today Pty Ltd in NSW or an established asset management consultant in other States).

The following Table provides an indication of the coverage and costs of these two types of assessments, where:

ü	= included in fixed-price fee
û	= not available in the standard service; exclusively offered in conjunction with the premium service
$	= optional extra, price available on applicable

Requests for quotation (or general inquries) can be directed to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
or PO Box 109, Glenside, SA 5065.

CHAPTER		STANDARD	PREMIUM
1	Continuation of the Council's Existing Policies: Is This Financially Sustainable?
1.1	Analytical framework	ü	ü
1.2	Operating deficit, and intergenerational equity	ü	ü
1.3	Debt, borrowing and debt servicing	ü	ü
1.4	Infrastructure backlog, and annual renewals gap	ü	ü
1.5	Overall financial sustainability assessment	ü	ü
2	The Council’s Operating Expenditure Policies
2.1	Description of existing policies	ü	ü
2.2	Extent of necessary policy adjustment	ü	ü
2.3	Benchmarking of existing policies against peers
2.3.1	Overall	$	ü
2.3.2	Policy by policy	û	$
2.4	Assessment of existing policies against best practice
2.4.1	Overall	ü	ü
2.4.2	Policy by policy	û	$
3	The Council’s Capital Expenditure Policies
3.1	Description of existing policies	ü	ü
3.2	Extent of necessary policy adjustment	$	ü
3.3	Assessment of existing policies against best practice	ü	ü
4	The Council’s Funding Policies
4.1	Description of existing policies	ü	ü
4.2	Extent of necessary policy adjustment	ü	ü
4.3	Benchmarking of existing policies against peers
4.3.1	Overall	$	ü
4.3.2	Policy by policy	û	$
4.4	Assessment of existing policies against best practice
4.4.1	Overall	ü	ü
4.4.2	Policy by policy	û	$
5	The Council’s Financing Policies
5.1	Description of existing policies	ü	ü
5.2	Assessment of existing policies against best practice	ü	ü
5.3	Scope for policy adjustment	$	ü
6	The Council’s Financial Governance Practices and Procedures
6.1	Description of existing policies	ü	ü
6.2	Assessment of existing policies against best practice
6.2.1	Overall	ü	ü
6.2.2	Policy by policy	$	$
6.3	Scope for policy adjustment	ü	ü
7	Recommended Adjustments to the Council’s Current Policy Settings
7.1	Changes necessary to key policy targets	û	ü
7.2	Proposed transition strategy in relation to key policies settings	û	ü
Appendix	Accompanying MS Excel Financial Model	$	$

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