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Consistent financial reporting (CFR)
Find out the purpose of the consistent financial reporting (CFR) framework for maintained schools and PRUs, and how to use COLLECT to submit a data return.
Contents
- Overview of consistent financial reporting
- Frequently asked questions
- Submitting a return
- 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 spending
- Benchmarking staff salaries
- Budget reporting and monitoring systems
- Calculating the cost of lessons and courses
- Costing whole-school SEN provision
- 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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