Scenario
Working in two funding years at the same time
It is September. The new year's first return is due and last year's final return has not closed. Two rulesets, two datasets, one team.
The situation
- Timing
- September
- Open
- The new funding year's first returns and the previous year's close
- Team
- The same people doing both
Constructed for teaching. No scenario in the Academy contains real learner data, and none ever will.
What is the biggest risk?
The rules behind this
The final return of the funding year is the last opportunity to amend that year's data. After it closes, the funding position, the performance measures and the audit population for the year are all fixed.
A funding rule is only ever true for a stated funding year. Carrying an answer from one year into another, without checking, is one of the most common causes of an incorrect claim.
Sources
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