SIMS offers a wide range of remote training courses and expert consultancy options specifically designed to help you use SIMS to drive whole school improvement.
Delegates are taken through the preliminary preparation for the census return, including the procedure for creating a return and correcting any outstanding validation errors. The course also explores the changes to the data requirements of the current return together with requirements for other returns.
This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.
NOTE: We have recently updated our course names to better support our customers in finding the course they need, the course content has not changed only the name has been updated. This course was previously titled School Census - Primary.
This course covers the end of year procedures in FMS specifically for academies to enable the smooth closure of the accounts prior to year end.
This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.
NOTE: We have recently updated our course names to better support our customers in finding the course they need, the course content has not changed only the name has been updated. This course was previously titled FMS End of Year - Academy.
There are no classes currently scheduled for this course. Please email simstraining@parentpay.com for further details.
This course covers the processes a Central school (non local bank account) would undertake to create central authorisations, enter the monthly information received from the local authority for payroll and any central receipts/payments.
There are no classes currently scheduled for this course. Please email simstraining@parentpay.com for further details.
In just an hour you can master how FMS operates in an external mode.
This course is not suitable for delegates from an independent school.
NOTE: We have recently updated our course names to better support our customers in finding the course they need, the course content has not changed only the name has been updated. This course was previously titled FMS User Converting from Central to External.
There are no classes currently scheduled for this course. Please email simstraining@parentpay.com for further details.
This course covers the end of year procedures and provides you with an opportunity to consider, prior to year end, the areas that will support the smooth closure of the accounts. It does not cover the Consistent Finance Return (CFR) procedures.
There are no classes currently scheduled for this course. Please email simstraining@parentpay.com for further details.
This course covers the Financial Reporting Suite (FRS) and the full range of its functionality, including the following areas:
* producing a personalised cover sheet for finance meetings
* reviewing forecasts and budgets and entering notes suggesting courses of action for governors to consider
* creating detailed reports for a variety of audiences
* improved outputs (PDF and Excel)
* loading and saving time-specified datasets
* setting conditional formatting on layouts.
There are no classes currently scheduled for this course. Please email simstraining@parentpay.com for further details.
SIMS Financial Management System (FMS) covers the full range of accounting functions required by schools, whether they run their own accounts locally or have their finances managed centrally by their Local Authority. This includes recording income and using Petty Cash.
There are no classes currently scheduled for this course. Please email simstraining@parentpay.com for further details.