Professional Development
Training Opportunities
1. "Introduction to SACS - The Standardized Account Code Structure"
2. "Where Does the Money Go?"
Upcoming Workshops
1. "Accounts Payable Workshop"
2. "Associated Student Body Accounting: Ensuring Financial Integrity"
3. "The Audit Challenge: Minimizing the Pain, Maximizing the Benefits"
4. "The Business Survival Guide for Site Administrators"
5. "CBO Boot Camp"
6. "Evaluating Special Education Expenditures"
7. "Fiscal Implications of School District Reorganization"
8. "Governmental Accounting and SACS"
9. "Making Money Work Where it Matters
10. "Setting the Tone for Excellence in School Business: Implementing Effective Internal Controls"
11. "Student Attendance Accounting Workshops"
12. "Understanding and Living with AB 1200"
13. "We Built It…Now What?"
14. 'What You Should Know About Management Information Systems"
Products
1. "Business Services Guide"
2. "Certificated Salaries and Benefits Project, J-90"
3. "May Revision Teleconference"
4. "1999-00 Resource Guide

Training Opportunities

1. "Introduction to SACS - The Standardized Account Code Structure"

This 60-minute videotape, presented by CASBO and CDE, is intended to be used as a technical training tool to provide basic understanding of the Standardized Account Code Structure. The tape will be provided at no charge to all school districts and COEs in the state. This tape will be used as a training tape for all LEAs.

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2. "Where Does the Money Go?"

This videotape, presented by CASBO and CDE, is for Board Members, Administrators and other appropriate audiences. The tape content will address such questions as "Why is the Standardized Account Code Structure (SACS) important to public education?" and "What are the benefits and accessibility to fiscal data through the SACS program?" The tape will be provided at no charge to all school districts and COEs in the state.

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Upcoming Workshops

"Governmental Accounting and SACS"

Partner: Gilbert Accountancy
Presenter: Sandra Peck

With the implementation of SACS, it has become clear that business officials and related staff are in need of information and training that is related to standard governmental accounting practices. This training focuses on providing the participants a solid back ground in governmental accounting with an emphasis on SACS and the new GASB requirements.

Dates to be announced.

For more information, contact Gilbert Accountancy at 916-646-6464.

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"Setting the Tone for Excellence in School Business: Implementing Effective Internal

Controls"

Partner: Gilbert Accountancy
Presenter: Sandra Peck

The focus of these workshops is to provide participants with an understanding of the internal control environment and structure. In addition, participants receive an internal control assessment document in hard copy and on disc, which can be used to evaluate the internal controls in their specific district or department. Participants will be given training on how to use the internal control assessment document in a small, medium or large school district or county office of education. By the completion of the training, participants will have a better understanding of how to implement, monitor, and strengthen the internal controls in their district or department.

Dates to be announced.

For more information, contact Gilbert Accountancy at 916-646-6464.

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"Understanding and Living with AB 1200"

Partner: Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team
Presenters: Thomas E. Henry and other FCMAT staff

The Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team originally published the AB 1200 Guide in 1992. Since then, the Guide has been updated twice. The latest update was completed in November 1999. Using the AB 1200 Guide as the primary source document, this training is intended to walk county office and district business office staff through the processes, requirements and functions of the AB 1200 legislation. This is a half-day workshop that includes a wealth of information to assist districts in avoiding fiscal insolvency.

Dates to be announced.

For more information, contact the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team at 661-636-4611.

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"We Built It…Now What?"

Partner: School Services of California
Presenter: Curt Pollock

With increasing interest in the Legislature and other governmental agencies in fully funding deferred maintenance and other facility related issues, school districts and county offices of education need accurate inventories of their facilities and a specific process to document receipt and expenditure of State funds. The focus of this workshop is on creating a financial accounting system that meets the needs of facilities planning for the district's governing board, administration and staff. The workshop includes information related to estimating and containing building costs, working with the Office of Public School Construction (OPSC), building a capital facilities budget, avoiding errors on the SAB 184's, and a range of other topics.

Dates to be announced.

For more information, contact School Services of California at 916-446-7517.

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Products

1. "Business Services Guide"

Partner: San Diego County Office of Education

The SCDOE provides the rights to publish and disseminate (electronically and otherwise) the "Business Services Guide." This guide is a compendium of business related information, process and guidelines developed to support chief business officials and all other business related staff and administration.

The guide is available on the FCMAT Web Page.

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2. "Certificated Salaries and Benefits Project, J-90"

Partners: California Department of Education, School Services of California, California Federation of Teachers, California Teachers Association

School Services of California, in partnership with CDE, CFT, and CTA, continues to design a survey form for the collection and publication of salary and benefits information for certificated employees. Improvements must be continually evaluated to enhance the quality of district information. SSC, in collaboration with the partners, performs a series of steps following the data entry for all school districts. Issues to be evaluated and reported include average salary schedule amount - prior vs. current year; total salary expense - prior vs. current year; total health benefit expense as a ratio to total salary expense; total number of service days versus instructional days; and other data as is appropriate and timely. This is an annual, ongoing publication.

Results of the J-90 survey are available on the FCMAT Web Page.

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3. "May Revision Teleconference"

Partner: Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team

Each year, the Governor publishes the May Revision of the annual state budget. For school district and county office staff, administration and boards, this revision is a critical indicator that impacts budget development, organizational planning, and employee agreements. The May Revision Teleconference provides an analysis and conversation of this important budget document immediately upon its release to the field on or around May 15th.

Broadcasted to County Offices of Education.

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Partner: Kern County Superintendent of Schools

With the enactment of AB 3141, state-funded school business training services are being facilitated through the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, which operates through the Kern County Superintendent of Schools office. A requirement of AB 3141 is the development of a training calendar, to be disseminated semiannually to each county service region, that publicizes all of the fiscal training services that are being offered at the local, regional and state level.

The Resource Guide is available on the FCMAT Web Page. Printed copies of this publication are available for $6.00 each, plus sales tax for California residents, from the Kern County Superintendent of Schools/FCMAT, 1300 17th Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301. Mail orders must be accompanied by a check or a purchase order. Purchase orders without checks are accepted from governmental agencies only. Publication price includes shipping.

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