Financial management

Saving time, duplication and avoidable effort is probably your main requirement of your Management Information System (MIS). But how about saving money?

In a tougher economic climate, the need to make your budget stretch further is always important. With SIMS, you can see ‘at a glance’ a comprehensive picture of your school’s finances and resources, manage day-to-day financial tasks more easily – and at the same time generate real savings.

Want a clearer picture of your school’s finances?

Imagine being able to gather information on staff contracts, payroll, purchases, payments received and assets held by your school at any time. SIMS lets you generate complex analysis reports to help monitor day-to-day spending and identify how to make best use of limited resources.

• Make your financial information usable with SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) for primary schools, secondary schools and academies

Manage day-to-day financial tasks

SIMS liberates school staff to perform financial tasks more easily. Administrators can handle payments quickly and efficiently, heads of departments can manage their budgets and equipment, and bursars can track spending and staff costs against commitments.

• Simplify accounting workflows in SIMS FMS for primary schools, secondary schools and academies
• Streamline the processes of dinner money administration with SIMS Dinner Money for primary schools

Save money

Every good investment should show a tangible payback. Even under the most critical scrutiny SIMS delivers real savings for schools over and over again. For example:

• Replace postage and telephone costs with text messages costing 0.04p each with SIMS InTouch for primary schools, secondary schools and academies
• Save 50% on supplier payment costs using Capita’s BACS service with SIMS Financial Management System for primary schools, secondary schools and academies
• Deliver reports online and save on printing costs with SIMS Learning Gateway for primary schools, secondary schools and academies
• Save on optical mark reader (OMR) sheet paper costs with SIMS Attendance for primary schools, secondary schools and academies