Financial Accounting For School Administrators

An update to Financial and Managerial Accounting for School Administrators: Superintendents, School Business Administrators and Principals, this book and CD include current best practices, GASB pronouncements, and web-based applications. It will be useful to superintendents, school business managers, and principals.

This book updates the classic text "Public School Fund Accounting Principles and Procedures" (Tidwell 1960). The book is designed to be used primarily as a textbook at the graduate level with students training to be school administrators, school business administrators, or principals. A list of topics covered include an overview of school accounting and school-business administration, basic accounting principles and techniques, the general ledger, journals, revenue and expenditure accounting, special entries, basic financial statements, changes in financial position, special revenue funds, capital projects funds, debt service funds, general fixed-asset account group, general long-term debt account group, enterprise funds, internal service funds, trust funds, agency funds, payroll accounting, internal cash control, student accounting, advanced financial statements, auditing, Association of School Business Officials' Certificate of Excellence, private-sector accounting practices, school-district financial management, and the future of financial and managerial accounting in the school setting. Appendices contain sample forms and a glossary. (LMI)

The system of financial accounting described in this volume is designed to furnish the officers in school systems, particularly in the smaller communities, with a treatise on this subject which will enable them to develop accounting procedures to meet all needs.

An update to Financial and Managerial Accounting for School Administrators Superintendents, School Business Administrators and Principals, this edition includes current best practices, GASB pronouncements, and Internet (web-based) applications. It will be useful to superintendents, school business managers, and principals.

This practical, easy-to-read guide explains the "why," "What," and "how" of school finance to those who need to understand the fundamentals of financial management. It allows readers to make the kind of informed, effective decisions that serve both the student body and the school's bottom line. Coverage incorporates the history of school finance and the changes that have come about in recent years; aligns its content to the most recent NCATE standards; and provides enough of the "nuts and bolts" of financing to ensure that the reader will easily grasp the subject. An expansive Resources for Administrators section at the end of the book provides the numerical standards used by all state Departments of Education and a comprehensive glossary of specialized financial terms make this book an excellent resource. A must-have desk reference for administrators in all facets of the education system. This book is also useful for those who sit on Education Boards, as well as those who make decisions about their community's use of resources.