Here you are able to download additional guidance and follow links to resources on Financial topics of importance to schools in the management of their budgets.
Click the title to access the guidance. For further information on any of the guidance included here, please contact your
School Funding Officer
Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR)
Consistent Financial Reporting is the Government’s coding framework for school income and expenditure. Here you will find guidance and updates on CFR.
VAT
Here you will find additional guidance on VAT accounting and reporting
HCSS (Access Group) Software
Bradford LA has established a strategic partnership with Access Group (HCSS Education). Access Group provides budget modelling software, which schools can use to manage their budgets and forecast income and expenditure over a 5 year period.
For information on the software contact your
School Funding Officer
Year End
A guidance manual for the year end close down process is published here
Timetable of Key Dates & Diary of Duties
We have pulled together a timetable of the key activities and reports required to be submitted by schools during the course of the Financial year. Here you will also find a list of key tasks we would expect school Financial managers to ensure are carried
out on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, termly and annual basis.
For further information, please contact your
School Funding Officer
SAP
SAP is the Financial software system used by Bradford Council. Here you will find additional guidance on SAP Financial reports, SAP ledger codes and the coding of school income and expenditure. We have also posted instructions on how to request a SAP journal
for RCCO (Revenue Contribution to Capital Outlay) expenditure.
Construction Industry Scheme (CIS)
The ruling from 1st April 2007 was that schools are be exempt from the CIS scheme. See the
HMRC website for further details.
Audit / SFVS
Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS), launched by the DfE, is a self-assessment standard for maintained schools which governing bodies should complete anually. Internal Audit continue to carry out audits in accordance with the requirements of the Accounts
and Audit Regulations 2003 (as amended).
Advances Information
Here you will find the scheduled dates of the payment of advances into school bank accounts. We will also post details of changing to full budget share status here in the autumn term each year
FAQs
We have pulled together answers to some common finance questions asked of the School Funding Team.
Who Do I Contact?
We have pulled together a list of contacts for common day to day Financial queries.
Glossary of Key Terms
We have pulled together a list of commonly used school Financial abbreviations and terms.
School Funding Team Contacts
Each school in Bradford is allocated a School Funding Team Officer, who is the first point of contact for that school on all Financial and funding matters.
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