Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
In no way am I questioning your ability to do the job, I’m just questioning the role. In my experience the initial matter of budgeting would have been done by the Head/SMT and the Bursar/Secretary and then, having ‘split’ the budget accordingly, would have been passed down to departmental heads.

At some point in between the budget would have been approved by the Governors but they would have had nothing to do with the minutiae involved.

Because such a vast proportion of the budget goes on salaries - more a comment on schools being underfunded than staff receiving excessive wages imo - ‘splitting’ the budget isn’t the most arduous of tasks and, as an accountant (a coincidence rather than a prerequisite) you would have less idea than the average departmental head on where what was left might be best spent.

Interestingly you’ve now moved in the opposite direction to AF and gone from ‘most’ staff having second jobs to ‘ALL staff getting alternative jobs during summer holidays’. That’s a scenario I do struggle to recognise.
Well that just goes to show how different schools can be. No bursar and a acting head in this case. Maybe my involvement was deeper by necessity