Budget software for MATs
Special features support the broader financial management requirements of multi-academy trusts. You can work at and produce plans and reports at a trust or school level or select a specific group of schools for your required activities.
Why choose our budgeting software for MATs?
Central control
You can control a range of factors at the central trust level including pay scales, profile templates and inflation factors and push these out to the schools.
Consolidated reporting
From BFR to budget monitoring and a trust-wide overview report, you can produce and view powerful reports at the trust and school level all in real-time.
A scalable solution for growing MATs
Access Education Budgets is scalable. Bringing additional schools into your MAT is all part of BAU with the ability to add unlimited users at no extra cost.
Secure and cloud-based
Often central staff will be based in a range of different locations. 100% cloud-based software with secure access through Access Workspace, anytime, anywhere, means that staff have everything they need wherever they are.
5-year forecasting
Forecasting and reforecasting tools allow you to plan your trust budget for up to 5 years, increasing visibility and identifying key challenges.
Scenario planning and salary modelling
Model the financial impact of multiple scenarios, such as changes in staff, pay, pupils, income or expenditure and benefit from automatic payroll calculations.
Income & expenditure
Track, manage and report on all your MATs income and expenditure to ensure your budget stays on track.
DfE & ESFA reports
Our Governor Report combines your forecast budget with actual income and expenditure commitments, while our ESFA report helps academies submit their budget forecast returns (BFR)
Watch a 7-minute demo of Access Education Budgets for MATs
Manage staff costs and payroll reconciliation
Managing staff costs in a growing MAT is no mean feat. Access Education Budgets keep your staff costs up to date with nationally applied staffing costs and adjustments calculated for you. These automatically take into account multiple contracts, pay scales, pensions and allowances. And by importing your monthly payroll file you can automatically reconcile expected and actual monthly payments and see an up-to-date view of cost-versus-budget variances against critical fields such as total pay, pension payments and National Insurance, easily tracking budgeted spend against actual payments.
Centralised planning and reporting across your trust
You can plan and report your budgets at a school, group or trust level with the centralisation of:
- Pay scales
- Inflation
- Job types
- Pay adjustments – i.e., maternity pay SSP
- Pay related factors
- Staff factors
- Age weighted pupil values
- Pension rates
- One off additional budget values
