The roles and responsibilities placed on the accounting officer are significant, One such role is to ensure a school is achieving value for money (vfm) and thus is ensuring it is using all the tools available to evidence  vfm.  Annal Nayyar can help as we can provide you with benchmarking data suite that compares schools similar to yours from size of school estate to ‘like for like’ demographic profiles .  Please contact us if you are interested.