This half day course explores the budget management functionality present within FMS and explains how to use this functionality to actively manage the school budget.

In this course you can learn how FMS operates with a Bank Account.

This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.

FMS Reports provide a comprehensive overview of your school’s finances enabling you to manage your budget and meet your reporting requirements for all your stakeholders.

This course covers the Financial Reporting Suite (FRS) and the full range of its functionality, including the following areas:
* producing a personalised cover sheet for finance meetings
* reviewing forecasts and budgets and entering notes suggesting courses of action for governors to consider
* creating detailed reports for a variety of audiences
* improved outputs (PDF and Excel)
* loading and saving time-specified datasets
* setting conditional formatting on layouts.

SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) covers the full range of accounting functions required by schools, whether they run their own accounts locally or have their finances managed centrally by their Local Authority. FMS is a finance package that runs separately to SIMS but which can be linked to gain information from SIMS.

FMS can record all order and invoice information for suppliers, recording budgets and commitments along with cash book transactions, petty cash and general journals. It also produces cheque runs and bank reconciliations along with all the period end/year end procedures. It can also store and calculate salary information using SIMS as well as produce sales invoices and record equipment and Assets.

This course provides delegates with an understanding of how to maintain and manage staff personal, professional and contractual data, including the links between Personnel and FMS.

This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.

SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) covers the full range of accounting functions required by schools, whether they run their own accounts locally or have their finances managed centrally by their Local Authority. FMS is a finance package that runs separately to SIMS but which can be linked to gain information from SIMS.

FMS can record all order and invoice information for suppliers, recording budgets and commitments along with cash book transactions, petty cash and general journals. It also produces cheque runs and bank reconciliations along with all the period end/year end procedures. It can also store and calculate salary information using SIMS as well as produce sales invoices and record equipment and Assets.

SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) covers the full range of accounting functions required by schools, whether they run their own accounts locally or have their finances managed centrally by their Local Authority. This includes processing payments (cheques & BACS) and recording debit and charge card payments.

Lesson Monitor provide schools with an integrated classroom and administration tool to monitor students’ attendance and behaviour.
The Lesson Monitor module in a Secondary is used both to record statutory registration and lesson attendance.
Lesson Monitor can help schools reduce truancy and improve safeguarding, while monitoring behaviour trends in the classroom, facilitating early intervention where necessary.

This course explores the reporting capabilities of Lesson Monitor which can provide senior leaders with access to real-time information and help them to analyse and monitor student attendance.