SFS Learning Center

The School Financial Services (SFS) Learning Center was developed to provide a centralized location for viewers to learn about Wisconsin Public School Finance. The main School Financial Services website houses an almost-overwhelming amount of information. This webpage has organized some of that core information into easy-to-find topic areas below. Be advised that not all of the information from the main site is captured here. We have chosen to work with the most sought-after items and will add topics as they are developed.

The Center is organized into 2 main sections - "Education" and "Quick Links."

The "Education" section is geared toward providing school finance instruction. In this section, users will find information and teaching tools developed by SFS staff to explain school finance concepts. This section has the following main links:

• The "New Finance Administrator Website" targets new business personnel by addressing the fundamentals of school finance.
• The "SFS Webcast Presentations" and "Tutorials" links extend fundamental school finance knowledge through Camtasia, Webcasts, and Powerpoint Presentations that focus on the details behind a broad range of school finance topics -- WUFAR Coding, Membership, Revenue Limits, Equalization Aid, Transfer of Service, OPEB, Special Education Reporting, SFS Spring Finance Workshops, etc.
• The "SFS Field Presentations" link contains the materials developed and used for presentations "in the field" (i.e. WASBO conferences, etc.) by the SFS team.

The "Quick Links" section is geared toward the practitioner, gathering the many SFS links related to a specific school finance topic into a central location.

Please contact a School Finance Consultant if you need further information or have a comment or suggestion, as your feedback will help us to continually improve the usefulness of this site.

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Education

New Business Administrator Website

SFS Webcast Presentations

Tutorials

SFS "Field" Presentations

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Quick Links

Accounting	Budget Development	Counting Children	Revenue Limits
Aids Register	SFS Calendar of Important Dates	Membership Info & Reporting	Revenue Limit Explanation
Audit Manual	Fiscal Year-at-a-Glance Tasks	District FTE Membership	Worksheets for Budgeting
Benefit Trust (Fund 73)	"65.90" Budget Publication Format	Amending the Membership Report	5-Year Projection Tool
COOP Agreement 66.0301	Rev Lim Worksheets for Budgeting	Membership Audits	Transfer of Service
Community Service (Fund 80)	Estimated Aid Prorations	Foster Group Home	Referenda Information
Debt Reporting	State Aid Payment Schedule	Youth Challenge	Energy Exemption
Fund Balance Practices	Short-Term Borrowing	Summer School Membership	Nurse, Safety, Transportation Exemptions
Grant Coding (Project Codes)	Fees Document	Census	Prior-Year Final Revenue Limit Worksheets
Indirect Cost	Estimating Equalization Aid
Transaction Coding
WUFAR

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Equalization Aid	State General Aid	Special Education Aid	SFS Statistical Data
Equalization Aid Explanation	School Finance System Overview	Coding Resources	School Finance Data Warehouse
Conceptual Grid of Formula	October 15 Certification	Fiscal Report (1505-SE)	Basic Facts
District FTE Membership	Aid Run Data Files (factors, etc.)	Categorical Aid Worksheets	School Finance Maps
Membership Info & Reporting	Aid Payment Information	Spec Ed Prior-Year Exp Data	SFS Longitudinal Data
October 15 Certification	Inter-/Intra-District Aid	High-Cost Spec Ed Aid	Comp Cost vs Shared Cost Differences
Estimating Equalization Aid	Special Adjustment Aid	Supplemental Spec Ed Aid
Property Valuation	School Finance Terminology	State Tuition
Consolidation Aid		Federal IDEA Programs
History of Guarantee Amounts
Prior-Year Equalization Aid Worksheets

For questions about this information, contact dpifin@dpi.wi.gov (608) 267-9114

Last updated on 8/31/2010 3:14:40 PM