As autonomy and accountability increase and budgets tighten, shrewd school business management is taking on ever-greater significance. It is often assumed, even within schools, that the discipline is mainly about clever crunching of numbers – but school business managers (SBMs) know that their impact doesn’t start and end with a spreadsheet.
SBMs use their expertise not just to keep the school afloat, but also to help create the best outcomes for each and every pupil in ways you might not expect.
Every school is different and no two SBMs work in quite the same way, but as the recently published professional standards for school business management highlight, there are several areas in addition to budget management where SBMs prove vital in their schools’ success.
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