Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Accountability


An important part of the role of school governor, particularly of an academy, is to ensure accountability to the community and one obvious element of this is the production of audited final accounts that set out how the funding has been used for the benefit of the pupils; today’s finance committee perused the draft statutory accounts with gritty bemusement as compliance with both government guidance and charity accounting standards leads to production of a mass of information analysed every which way, but seeing the wood for the impenetrable forest is a challenge even for me as a seasoned bean-counter - if it’s accountable only to accountants where’s the accountability?

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