Financial Accounting for School Administrators: Tools for School - Hardcover

Everett, Ronald E.; Johnson, Donald R.; Madden, Bernard W.

9781610487719: Financial Accounting for School Administrators: Tools for School

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1610487710 ISBN 13: 9781610487719

Publisher: R&L Education, 2012

An update to Financial and Managerial Accounting for School Administrators: Superintendents, School Business Administrators and Principals, this book and CD includes current best practices, GASB pronouncements, and web-based applications. It also provides school administrators with important accounting background, technique, and applications in the school environment and demonstrates the overall binding effect accounting has on all of the tasks and functions performed by school administrators. Knowledge about accounting and accounting skills pervades all aspects of the day-to-day operation of a school and school district. The proper day-to-day operation of the schools and quality planning and decision-making cannot realistically take place unless administrators and board members have an understanding of school fund accounting.

The present and the future will see the need for both financial and managerial accounting. One type will not overshadow the other. Both will continue to evolve and develop to satisfy the needs of society and the education community. Financial and managerial accounting together can be thought of as the process that gathers, produces, organizes, and presents information that can be consumed by a wide variety of users for the purpose of keeping an organization operating, growing, improving, and changing. This book and CD will be useful to superintendents, school business managers, and principals.

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About the Author:

Ronald E. Everett, PhD, has spent 41 years in education as a teacher, central office/superintendent, university professor, and executive director of the Illinois Association of School Business Officials. Dr. Everett has delivered conference addresses, workshops, and taught graduate-level courses throughout the world. He is recognized as a practitioner/scholar at home and as a distinguished visiting scholar abroad. Over the past 25 years, his professional service, research, teaching, and primary interests have focused on school business administration.

Donald R. Johnson, EdD, has served the educational administration field for more than 40 years as a university professor, school superintendent, business manager, computer services director, state department consultant, and consultant to school districts. He has spoken at numerous local, state, national, and international conferences on topics related to school organization, leadership, and business management. His current professional efforts have centered on providing electronic and digital access for school leader's professional development.

Bernard W. Madden, Ed D, CPA, has over 40 years of experience in finance and accounting. In private industry and public accounting positions included audit manager, internal audit director, plant controller and corporate vice president controller. In education he has been a business manager, an assistant superintendent for finance & operations, and a consultant to school districts. He has also developed courses and taught in the graduate school at Northern Illinois University and DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management, as well as presented seminars at local, state and national conferences.

Review:

This textbook guides students through the basic principles of school accounting, and introduces them to the reporting process and forms that are essential to sound fiscal management. Although school districts depend on software packages to track day-to-day operations, effective school business managers must understand the accounting concepts covered so well in this textbook. (Charles Howell, Departement Chair: Leadership, Education, and Foundations, Northern Illinois University)

This textbook is thorough and practical and is the premiere source for instruction on school fund accounting. It has been an ongoing staple for teaching school business officials in Illinois and across the country. (Michael Jacoby, Executive Director, Illinois Association of School Business Officials)

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