Star Budget Planner

The star budget planner specifically developed for the education sector by education specialists with over 20 years experience:

• Works as a stand-alone budgeting toolkit or fully integrated with Star Academy accounting platform
• Available for Single Academy Trusts and Multi-Academy Trusts
• Enables detailed income and expenditure planning over three years
• A fully integrated, cost effective, web based budgeting platform
• Cost effective - Annual subscription from £500.00

Developed as a result of collaboration with school and academy stakeholders, Star Budget Planner is a fully-functional, web based budgeting platform that saves you the time of creating, maintaining and updating your own budget spreadsheets.

Star Budget Planner enables you to plan your staffing costs, pupil led data and other income and expenditure scenarios over a three-year period.

The Star Budget Planner is included within the full Star Academy accounting and budgeting platform.

Budget Planner features

• GAG statement input that allows pupil number forecasting over 3 years
• Manage your staff costs with multiple payscale functionality to ensure complete accuracy of calculations
• Staff costs can be calculated for teachers and support staff taking account of FTE, hours, pension, National Insurance, increments, allowances and multiple contracts.
• Staffing reports that show costs over a 3 year period with increments and inflation factors
• Payroll monitoring function that allows data to be imported to compare budgets to actuals
• Budget versus actual variance analysis that allows data to be imported from your accounting system via a template.
• Flexibility to create different staffing scenarios for the "what if"
• Detailed income and expenditure analysis, allowing budget profiling to be applied if required
• A data dashboard that includes key metrics for strategic planning
• Technical and operational helpline support and user guides included in the price - so no hidden costs
• Reports can be produced on individual sites, a selection of sites or the entire trust with the ability to export to excel

"From demonstration to installation we have been given excellent, friendly, timely support by the Education Finance team. The Budget Planner is unique, being simple to use and easy to understand. Using the Education Finance Budget Planner I feel confident that I can carry out financial monitoring using up-to date figures."

Download the Star Budget Planner brochure (PDF, 2 MB).

For more information and all your EducationFinance enquiries please ring our designated Finance helpline number 01603 307758 or email finance.support@norfolk.gov.uk.