A stronger financial
foundation for your school.
Enrollment, public funding and authorizer reporting.
Your books tell you what happened. Who is telling your board what happens next?
Talk to our teamA bookkeeper closes the month. An auditor checks it afterwards. Neither one tells your board whether next year's enrollment still supports next year's staffing. That forward view is the job we do, built on accounting we reconcile ourselves.
Built around your reporting environment
- Fund balance %
- Days cash on hand
- Current ratio
- FEFP realization
- Budget-to-actual
Why a small enrollment shift is never a small problem
In a charter school, one number moves everything downstream. By the time it shows up in the fund balance, most of the useful choices are already behind you.
- 01
Enrollment / FTE
- 02
FEFP Revenue
- 03
Staffing & Spending Capacity
- 04
Fund Balance
- 05
Long-Term Viability
What we do for charter schools
We own the accounting foundation and then build the CFO layer on top of it, so every forecast stands on numbers we reconciled ourselves, not numbers we inherited.
GASB-standard accounting
Daily transaction processing, bank reconciliation and a disciplined month-end close, kept audit-ready every day rather than rebuilt at year-end.
Board-ready reporting
A monthly package your board can actually read: full statements, budget-to-actual, and the KPIs your authorizer watches, in Red Book segmentation.
Enrollment-driven forecasting
Multi-year projections and scenario models tied to FTE and FEFP, so the board can test a decision before it becomes a commitment.
Compliance and audit readiness
Continuous monitoring, deadline tracking and a complete audit trail, so the annual audit stops being a scramble.
The rules we work inside
- GASB
- FEFP
- FTE
- Red Book
- Fund balance
- Authorizer reporting
- Florida Statute 1002.33(9)(g)3
- A monthly financial statement summary sheet goes to your sponsor: a balance sheet and a statement of revenue, expenditures and changes in fund balance, in the governmental funds format prescribed by GASB. Monthly, not annually.
- The Red Book
- Financial and Program Cost Accounting and Reporting for Florida Schools. Every revenue and expense carries the state's object and function coding, which is what makes your reports legible to the district.
- GASB
- Governmental fund reporting. It is the format your sponsor, your auditor and the state all read your school in.
- FEFP and the FTE survey weeks
- Revenue follows headcount counted during the October and February survey weeks. A student has to be actively enrolled and scheduled into a course during the week to count, which is why an enrollment slip becomes a revenue problem two quarters later.
- Florida Statute 218.39
- The annual audit must be completed within nine months of fiscal year end by an independent certified public accountant, and filed with the sponsor, the district school board, the Auditor General and the Department of Education.
- The January 31 Capital Outlay upload
- The audit has to be uploaded to the Charter School Portal by January 31 or Capital Outlay distributions are withheld. It is the one deadline with money attached to it.
The record behind the advice
Forecasting is only worth as much as the accounting underneath it. Ours has run on the same discipline for nearly two decades.
- Serving Florida schools and organizations
- Since 2006
- Longest client partnership
- 17 Yrs
- Team screening
- Level 2
- Professional liability and cyber liability coverage
- $1M + $1M
Common questions
See the problem while your board still has choices.
A focused conversation about your existing budget and forecast: what it assumes, where it breaks, and what your board would need to see to act early. No cost, no commitment.
Talk to our team