Banking and Investments

Outlines financial management responsibilities for the establishment and operation of bank accounts, including maintaining a register of authorised signatories, ensuring bank accounts are reconciled against financial records on a timely basis, and outlining steps to stop bank accounts going into overdraft.

In the main these resources relate to the work of the FFBS Branch. Further resources on this topic may be discovered from the Department's home page.

Policies
Guidelines and Procedures
Good Practice
Reports
Forms

Policies
All	Bank Accounts - outlines the policy for establishing, maintaining, reconciling and closing bank accounts.
Schools	School and College Bank Accounts - outlines policy and guidelines for the operation and management of funds contained in bank accounts.
Guidelines and Procedures
	Bank Reconciliation - outlines the process for completing a bank reconciliation. Word 320KB.
	Changing School Bank Accounts - procedures to use when changing to another school bank account. Word 134KB.
	Cheques, dishonoured and returned credit card transactions - what to do if you have a bounced cheque or credit card transaction is returned. Word 111KB
	CRE - End-of-day processing - outlines the process for completing the CRE End-of-day banking. Word 166KB
	CRE - Function Keys, setting up and using - outlines the process for setting up the Cash Register Emulation function keys. Word 137KB
All	Deskbank Guidelines - outlines Westpac's electronic banking package. PDF 31KB
Schools	Establishment and Operation of Bank Accounts - outlines the requirements for the establishment and operation of school bank accounts.
Schools	Internet Banking - outlines the requirements for establishing internet banking in schools. Word 111KB
	Receipting a Combination of Invoice Payment and Cash Transaction - outlines the process. Word 61KB
	Receipting for a sale to which GST applies - outlines the process. Word 61KB

Good Practice
	Tally Cash Receipts Against Invoices - recommended reports to run for tallying receipts against invoices. Word 191KB

Reports
	SACS reports for Banking and Investments can be found on the SACS Reports page.

Forms
Schools	Balance of Bank Account Summary - form to assist schools and colleges to reconcile what makes up the balance of their bank account. Word 38KB