The kindergarten treasurer role in 6 buckets
If you’ve taken on the treasurer role at a kindergarten or preschool, there’s a good chance you’re doing it alongside a full-time job and a full life. Most treasurers aren’t accountants. Financial acumen matters, but you shouldn’t need an accounting degree to do this job well. What you need is a clear sense of your […]
Guidelines for Kindergarten, Preschool and Childcare Treasurers
The latest edition of the Guidelines for Kindergarten, Preschool and Childcare Treasurers is here. A practical guide for fulfilling the treasurer role, you’ll find helpful tips, advice, and step–by–step checklists. Download the guidelines to learn more about: Partner with a specialist team of experts in the early childhood education and care sector Our dedicated team […]
VECTEA Changes: What Early Childhood Centre Operators Need to Know
A lot has been discussed about pay increases in the early childhood sector, and much of it has centred on the federal government’s Worker Retention Payment for long day care. But for Victorian kindergartens and early childhood centres operating under the Victorian Early Childhood Teachers and Educators Agreement (VECTEA), the changes coming through are separate […]
Protecting your ECEC service from fraud: where the real risk sits and what to do about it
Most of the fraud that hits early childhood education and care services is preventable. The controls that prevent it are ordinary and inexpensive, and they don’t require finance expertise to put in place. The reason these controls are so often missing has less to do with anyone’s competence than with the structure of the sector […]
Not-for-profit childcare service finds a financial safeguard in Slate Accounts
How financial expertise helps growing childcare service improve communication, efficiency, and confidence.