The Robots Are Coming!
…but our jobs are still safe. Machine learning and automation of data entry is already here, and Xero Accounting software is the leading school accounting software provider on this to date. Receipt Bank: You may have seen me harp on about this before, but as an Add On partner with Xero, Receipt Bank already has […]
Finance Reports in Xero?
Yes you can! Now is a great time to consider the formatting and presentation of Board finance reports. Can they be simpler, smarter, suitable? Are you still producing or receiving pages of BoT finance reports based on excel or clunky software applications? One thing we can tell you for sure – they are taking longer […]
Time for a Sea Change?
Ahoy there, to the school professionals who are keeping our schools, preschools and high schools financially afloat. The ship may be low in the water but if she’s still moving forward congratulations! Whether you are the Principal making key decisions with your stakeholders all in mind, or the data entry person keeping the information needed […]
Term 2 Tweaks
Welcome to Term 2, the land of opportunities! You made it through Term 1’s new year duties, welcomed new children into the fold, instigated the ideas and budgets formulated in 2016, and took your school for a test drive in 2017. Term 2 is often a great time to review and consolidate. You know the drill: […]
How many times has your Principal told you ‘go home, it’s late’ and you say ‘I’m just going to finish entering these invoices, we really need to pay them tomorrow.’? How would you like an APP that could do all the entering for you, so that all you need to do is check and approve […]
Librarians Rule, Okay?
Your school library is one of the most diversely represented elements of the education system? What do I mean by that? The size and importance of a schools library is not necessarily related to the size of the school, nor the demographics of the population, budget or location. We see this at our end when […]
Mitigating Audit Blues
Audit issues over Locally Raised Funds We thought the above topic will be of relevance to your school especially due to external audit sensitivity over this Revenue area. Your school’s audit service providers may have previously raised their concerns through the Management Report to the Board. These concerns typically have centred on the lack of […]
2017 Budget Bliss
Yes! (Oh no!) It is that time of the School year when your Accounting Service Provider would/should have forwarded to the School Principal and/or the Administration Team, Budget 2017 workpapers to complete. You, as Principal and also in consideration of your Administration staff, might feel stressed over this Financial Governance requirement. However, as you know […]
One of those days?
School admin in Crisis? Holidays causing strife in the school accounts department? Had a key accounts staff member just resign or get seriously sick and now you are in need of some relief work? This is a service we have capacity for right now, so if you need a part time, short term reliever until […]
