MAT budgeting software

Meet Academy and Trust level requirements, providing views at both levels.

With Access Central Budgets, you get a consolidated and elevated view of multiple establishments across your whole Trust.​

• Real-time data: Stay up-to-date with real-time budget planning and actuals data.
• Trust and academy level view: Shared understanding of budgets by both the Trust and Academies thanks to a two-way flow of data.
• Clear decision making: Make clear decisions with actionable insights for both standard and 'what-if' scenarios.

Say goodbye to repetitive manual tasks and data entry, and welcome unbeatable consistency and clarity into your financial processes.

Revolutionise budget management with direct adjustments, eliminating manual updates

Now you can track your budget year-round, tweaking it as needed - based on expected outcomes, end-of-year projections, and variances, all from one convenient view. 

Bid farewell to manual data analysis and entry, and welcome faster decision-making, time savings, and enhanced data quality.

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.

Our system calculates staff costs, considering contracts, scales, FTE hours, pensions, and allowances.

Easily model 'What if?' scenarios for staff, pay, pupil numbers, income, or expenses, empowering you to craft effective short, medium, and long-term plans. This saves time with simplified decision-making for short, medium, and long-term plans.

Plus, utilise our latest budget adjustment feature for real-time modifications based on evolving variables.

You can plan and report at a school, group or trust level while setting user permission controls for individual academies. An extensive reporting suite allows you to quickly generate customisable, easy-to-understand reports in a variety of formats, including:

• Budget Forecast Return (BFR)
• Budget monitoring
• MAT overview report
• Income and expenditure
• Monthly staffing profile and pupil reports
• Payroll reconciliation
• A comprehensive budget dashboard

MAT specific reporting combines your budget forecast with actual income and expenditure commitments and presents data at the highest level or down to individual schools, groups and ledger codes.

Automating the process of pooling the General Annual Grant (GAG) funding can increase efficiencies across your trust. For MATs operating in this way, calculating the distribution of funds can save time and free up central staff.