School Finance: Understanding District Budgets

by CSBA

To effectively fulfill the school board’s responsibilities to adopt a fiscally sound budget and ensure fiscal accountability, it is essential that all board members are able to read and accurately interpret their school district’s budget. We don’t need to become financial experts, but we do need to have a basic understanding of how the budget is used, what our revenue and expenditures are, how revenues and expenditures are reported using the state’s standardized account code structure, and how our district’s budget is organized and presented. This valuable CSBA resource will provide you with an executive summary of the board's role in understanding district budgets.

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