Date/Time
Date(s) - 19/03/2026
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Categories
This course covers the year end procedures necessary in FMS specifically for maintained schools:
Thursday 19th March 9:30 -12:00
This course is intended for staff with responsibilities for financial procedures in maintained schools only and delegates should have a good working knowledge of FMS.
Course Content
It is essential before undertaking any year end processes in FMS that you have read and understood all necessary guidance from the local authority. This course will cover the areas of FMS that are needed for smooth closure of accounts including:
- Overview of Year End Processes
- Creating the new financial year
- System Checks & Preparing the year for Closure
- Year end reports
- Preliminary close downs
- Year end reports
- Final closure of accounts
- Producing the consistent financial report (CFR) if required.
Charges
Course Cost: For customers that purchase Cygnet FMS Application Support, this course is free of charge. Other customers are welcome to join, the cost of the training session is £100 for the session.
We request you provide details of your authorising manager, we will then inform them of your booking along with sending any invoice that may be applicable.
Terms and Conditions
Booking a course place prior to attendance is essential in order for us to prepare sufficient training materials and to make appropriate venue booking and catering arrangements.
All applications for course places are made online at www.cygnet-it.org Courses can be browsed on this site without the need to log in. Once they have completed the application process, their request will be emailed to the authorising manager. If authorised, the application will then proceed, and the staff member will be added to the register for the course.
All cancellations must be received in writing to info@cygnet.it no less than 24 hours before the start of the event/course; otherwise, the full course fee will apply at the standard rate.
Courses may occasionally be cancelled when the minimum number of applications required have not been received. We will endeavour to notify you as soon as possible of any such cancellation via email to everyone who has submitted an application for a place on that course.
Every effort is made to ensure the quality of our training courses, including content, presenters and materials. All participants will receive a certificate at the end of the course.
If applicable your establishment will be invoiced for course places as soon as possible after the course has taken place.




