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Academies accounts returns: validation tests

These documents show the tests, thresholds and standard questions EFA and Deloitte use in validating academy trusts’ accounts returns.

Updates to this page

From:
Education Funding Agency
Published:
18 March 2014
Last updated:
2 March 2016
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  1. The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has updated the page with the list of tests and standard questions that will be used to validate the information provided in academy trusts’ 2014 to 2015 accounts returns.

  2. Added new versions of the March accounts return validation tests

  3. The Education Funding Agency has updated this page to include the validation tests Deloitte will apply to academy trusts' March 2015 accounts returns between May and August 2015.

  4. First published.

This publication was withdrawn on

This page relates to a previous year and no longer reflects the current guidance. You can find more up-to-date guidance on the Academies accounts return page

Documents

2014 to 2015 accounts return: validation tests: Excel spreadsheet

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 54.6 KB

2014 to 2015 accounts returns: validation tests: Open document format

ODS, 40.5 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Details

The Education Funding Agency (EFA) validates the information in academy trusts’ accounts returns before consolidating them into its annual accounts. EFA’s delivery partners, Deloitte, apply a series of validation tests to identify any errors in the returns.

The documents you can find on this page are:

  • 2014 to 2015 accounts returns: validation tests: Excel version
  • 2014 to 2015 accounts returns: validation tests: Open document format

The documents are available in open document spreadsheet format as well as in Microsoft Excel.

Contact

Between March and May 2016, Deloitte will apply the validation tests to academy trusts’ 2014 to 2015 accounts returns. In carrying out the validation, Deloitte will contact some academy trusts on EFA’s behalf in order to resolve any queries. They will raise only one set of queries, where possible.

Email: academiesconsolidation@deloitte.co.uk

Deloitte helpline: 0207 007 3011

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