1. As a building principal, list and explain three major factors that would guide your budget decisions?
1. A factor that I will use to help guide the budget decisions is determining if the money being spent is to help meet the goals of the current school improvement plan. As a school system, the implementation of improvement plans are designed to help improve instructions for the students. This should be one of the first areas I look at when making purchases. I need to determine if I need to make purchases in order to assure that the improvement plans have the needed supplies and materials as stated.
2. Another factor that I would use to help guide the budget decisions is by determining if the district has enough staff to meet the
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By following through with my plan, it will help me be able to create a collaboration with others while addressing topics such as instructional improvements.
B. Describe two examples of how a principal might use systems management and leadership teams to share administrative duties; allowing the principal more time for instructional leadership. 1. One example would be the use of reading coaches. The principal can create a team of individuals who have the ability and knowledge to oversee the reading program. This would include reviewing weekly reading data, collaborating with other teachers on ideas and strategies, determining if reading groups are on track according to the program. They will also hold weekly group meetings with each other along with the team they are overseeing. Then at the end of each week they will submit a report to the principal that will provide data driven information on how the reading groups are progressing within the district. Then if the principal has individual concerns that the reading coaches are not able to address he/she can seek out one or two teachers instead of finding time to evaluate multiple teachers each week.
2. Another example would be the use of a special education team. The principal can create a team of special education teachers along with regular education teachers that meet once a month to evaluate data, issues, and
Budget management analysis is used by mangers as a tool and helps determine that all resources available are being used efficiently. The budgets are determined yearly and are based upon the previous year’s budget and variances. This paper will discuss specific strategies to manage budgets within forecast, compare five to seven expense results with budget expectations, describe possible reasons for variances, give strategies to keep results aligned with expectations, recommend three benchmarking techniques, and identify those that might improve budget accuracy, and justify the choices made.
3. Explain two methods that can be used in order to identify realistic estimations when developing a budget. [2.2]
Achieving a school district’s mission and vision requires the commitment of its stakeholders. In order to involve them in the process, it is necessary for educational leaders to “motivate staff, parents, students, board and community members” (Educational Leadership Constituencies Council, 2002, p. 4). The transformational leadership theory emphasizes the importance of educational leaders acting as role-models in order to motivate and inspire the school community. This approach has the potential to involve all stakeholders, leading to increased student success (Bush, 2007). The Assistant Director of Special Education in Northwest ISD directly supervised the school district’s assessment staff. Her education, experience, and passion set an example for her subordinates, stimulating them to achieve more, leading to her promotion to Executive Director of Student Services.
2.1 – explain the strategic purpose of a) school governors, b) senior management team, c) other statutory roles e.g. SENCO, d) teachers and e) support staff roles.
The budgets process could help to spread resoursces that increase the skill to get best outcome.
3. Explain two methods that can be used in order to identify realistic estimations when developing a budget. [2.2]
This research paper is a brief discussion of budget management analysis. Budgeting is the key to financial management, and is the key to translates an organization goals or plan into money. Budgeting is a rough estimate of how much a company will need to get their work done, and provides the basis for evaluating performance, a source of motivation, coordinating business activities, a tool for management communication and instructions to employees. Without a budget an organization would be like a driver, driving blinded without instructions or any sense of direction, that’s how important a budget is to every organization and individual likewise (Clark, 2005).
Staying on budget is one of the key factors that will play a significant role in ensuring the success and the completion of the project in a timely manner. In addition, budgeting will allow this project to develop a spending plan which will ensure that we do not exceed the $3,000 dollars allotted for the project. Furthermore, by having a budget plan in place, we are on the path to setting and meeting our financial goals.
Describe the budget process and how staff members at the unit level impact the budget.
The manager must remember that the budget is completed with a goal in mind. All employees should be aware of the budget and how it ties to the ultimate goals or plans for that department (Walsh, 2016). This budget should have a strategy and effectively communicate the department goals. The manager should take the long-range plan to build the annual budget with this plan in mind (Finkler, 2017).
Budgets serve five main purposes; planning, facilitating communication and coordination, allocating resources, controlling profits and operations and evaluating performance and providing incentives. The budgeting process requires both technical and interpersonal leadership skills to achieve each of these purposes effectively. The director’s memo demonstrates several short comings in the budgeting process. The director instituted the “responsibility accounting system” as a means of evaluating performance. However, the DPW director has not consulted Sam in the budget process. Sam understands that his total expenditures are impacted by relatively unpredictable events that contribute to an uncontrollable element of his cost. The
This assessment is about the requirements to undertake budgeting and forecasting the finances of an organization. After reviewing the case study I have prepared a budget statement.
Both auxiliary and capital budgets are special cases as differ from other budget types. The budget set for an auxiliary unit, which is a unit that provides ready services to “identifiable subgroups of the campus population,” is known to be self-sustaining (Barr & McClellan, 2011, p.120). Unlike auxiliary budgets, capital budgets are created to support renovation or construction budgets within higher education. The purpose of a capital budget is to generally cover the cost of the constructions or renovation design, architectural, and engineering services. In addition, this type of budget will also include charges for liability insurance, landscaping, site preparation, and cost associated with studying the new land site. The following paper will continue to
The cost of having personnel in the organization varies with the scope of costs associated with their presence and input towards the completion of the project. When budgeting, the organization should consider a number of things associated with personnel. First, the organization should determine the number of positions that will directly affect the cost of the communication equipment budget (Dietrich, Adamus, Miner, & Steinhart, 2012). The second step will involve determining the monthly salary that each of the personnel and their group members will take home. The budgeting team must determine the percentage project time each of the personnel will have, which may also be translated in terms of months to ensure that the figures tally with the amount of time needed. When considering grant funding that is released on a quarterly basis, the team might need to break
First, you must consider your policy options at this point. You are left with four main things to consider: how to budget for teacher salaries, school choice, how to determine which schools will be the first to implement this new budget, and a formula to determine student weights.