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ESFA financial management: college accounts

This information allows further education colleges, sixth form colleges, and designated institutions established under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 to compare their financial data with national totals and other colleges and organisations.

Please note that the intended audience for this page is FE colleges, other than Specialist FE colleges funded by ESFA as “Special post 16 institutions” (SPIs) (sometimes described as FE colleges), unless they are a subsidiary of one of the aforementioned organisations.

ESFA financial management: college accounts

The latest release of data is taken from Education and Skills Funding Agency’s database of college finance records for the year ended 31 July 2022. The data file contains 214 of 228 expected returns. National colleges are not included in this dataset.

Finance records should replicate colleges’ audited financial statements insofar as they are able. They are not subject to independent external audit.

Only fully complete 2021 to 2022 finance records submitted to ESFA by 30 April 2023 have been included.

We do not validate or cleanse finance record data used in this data release and we are not responsible for any decisions or judgements made using the information.

Additional information is set out in our college accounts direction.

This page contains 5 years of financial information.

Please raise any queries using our enquiry form.

College accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions for 2021 to 2022

College accounts academic year 2021 to 2022 data

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College accounts academic year 2021 to 2022 data field definitions

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College accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions for 2020 to 2021

College accounts academic year 2020 to 2021 data

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College accounts academic year 2020 to 2021 data field definitions

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College accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions for 2019 to 2020

College accounts academic year 2019 to 2020 data field definitions

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College accounts academic year 2019 to 2020 data

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College accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions for 2018 to 2019

College accounts academic year 2018 to 2019 data field definitions

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College accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions for 2017 to 2018

College accounts academic year 2017 to 2018 data field definitions

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Published 26 April 2018
Last updated 6 July 2023 + show all updates
  1. We have published an updated version of the college accounts academic year 2021 to 2022 data.

  2. We have published the college accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions for 2021 to 2022.

  3. College accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions added for 2020 to 2021

  4. We have published the college accounts academic year 2019 to 2020 data.

  5. We have published the college accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions for 2018 to 2019.

  6. We have published the college accounts dataset and college accounts data field definitions for 2017 to 2018.

  7. First published.