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The financial statements are the summary documents describing your school’s position and result over a financial year. Ardoise generates them from your accounting entries.

The balance sheet (Assets / Liabilities)

The balance sheet describes what the school owns (assets) and what it owes (liabilities) at a given date.
  • Fixed assets: durable goods (buildings, equipment, vehicles).
  • Current assets: inventory and receivables (what families owe you).
  • Treasury assets: bank, cash desk, electronic money.
  • Equity: capital, reserves, result.
  • Payables: suppliers, tax and social liabilities, borrowings.
The balance sheet is balanced by construction: total assets must equal total liabilities. That is one of the validations Ardoise checks.

The income statement

It presents what the school has earned (revenue) and spent (expenses) over the year, down to the net result (profit or loss). It is organised according to the SYSCOHADA intermediate management balances: turnover, value added, gross operating surplus, operating result, financial result, net result.

The cash flow statement

It explains where the money came from and where it went over the year:
  • operating flows (ordinary activity);
  • investing flows (buying/selling assets);
  • financing flows (borrowings, capital).
It reconciles with treasury: opening treasury + change = closing treasury.

The notes

The notes complete and detail the financial statements (breakdown of fixed assets, receivables, tax and social liabilities, headcount, and so on). Each note is:
  • applicable (required);
  • optional;
  • or not applicable given your situation.
Ardoise determines applicability from your modules and your data.

Financial indicators

Ardoise calculates indicators useful for steering the school: turnover, value added, gross operating surplus, net result, self-financing capacity, working capital, net treasury, net debt. These indicators help you understand the school’s financial health.

Where do the figures come from?

Every figure in a financial statement comes from the accounting entries (the journal). You can therefore always trace a total back to the operations that make it up - that is traceability.

Generating and downloading

To obtain the pre-filled Excel file of the financial statements, see Excel export.