School Efficiency Consulting

N.C. LEA Efficiency Studies

North Carolina’s individual school districts are facing unprecedented financial pressure to manage the district’s financial resources in a manner that will ensure that classrooms have services and materials needed to achieve academic success. The last several years of severe budget reductions have resulted in major cutbacks in the basic core resources and services that are necessary for learning to take place in individual school classrooms. In an effort to help LEAs maximize all state, federal and local resources, Rives & Associates, LLP, CPAs offer the following for you consideration:

N.C. School budgets allot approximately 80 percent of their resources for personnel. The fiscal management of these personnel costs is a huge and complex undertaking that requires constant analysis if maximum efficiency is to be implemented.

LEA financial and HR staffs are generally overworked administering the daily responsibilities of the district and can not spend the time required monthly to analyze all personnel positions in the district to ensure resources are maximized to the fullest extent allowed under State Board of Education financial flexibility guidelines.

Rives & Associates, LLP, CPA’s (R&A) is an experienced firm of CPAs and financial experts who are experienced in N.C. School finance and can assist LEAs with this monthly process and make sure all resources are maximized to the fullest extent of the law. In most cases the additional resources generated by our work can be converted to supply, equipment and materials that can vastly benefit the classrooms of the district.

Discover the simple and efficient way to
retrieve and track financial information.

• Salary Allotment Utilization
• Operational Reviews
• Expense Analysis - Child Nutrition, Transportation, Facility Services, Copiers, Cell Phones, etc.
• Individual School Accounting
• Training Principals, Assistant Principals & Bookkeepers
• Administrative Training - Host On-Site / Off-Site One Day to Three Day Sessions
• Resource Management Training for Superintendents and Board Members

We understand....

• Best Practices Operating in School Districts Across the State
• Query Applications for Easy Reporting and Analysis
• State Policy Manual and Chart of Accounts
• Training Needed for School Administrators
• Blending Institutional, Financial and Operational Management