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Benchmarking spending
Find out what you can do with the schools financial benchmarking service from the DfE, and understand the benefits and limitations of benchmarking. You'll also learn how other schools are using benchmarking.
Contents
- What you can do with the benchmarking service
- Benefits of benchmarking
- Limitations of benchmarking
- How schools are using benchmarking: case studies
- Cover benchmarking in your financial management handbook
- 3-year budget plans: guidance on forward projection
- Academies: running a deficit budget
- Achieving efficiency in the staffing budget
- Allocating departmental budgets
- Benchmarking data: questions to generate discussion and analysis
- Benchmarking staff salaries
- Budget reporting and monitoring systems
- Calculating the cost of lessons and courses
- Consistent financial reporting (CFR)
- Costing whole-school SEN provision
- Early closedown of a year’s accounts (maintained)
- Employer contributions to the Teachers' Pension Scheme
- Finance glossary
- Showcase: Financial efficiency in a medium-size primary school
- Financial procedures manuals
- Informing staff about a deficit budget
- QuickRead: Managing the school budget
- Maximising financial efficiency: advice and case studies
- Paying for refreshments out of the school budget
- Presenting the budget to governors
- Purchases: reviewing value for money
- Request form for curriculum funds: template and guidance
- School budget: effective monitoring meetings
- School budget: expenditure on staffing
- School hardship funds: guidance
- Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS): summary
- Using Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning to maximise your resources
- Using school funds to buy gifts for staff
- Using the school budget for overseas recruitment
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