Happy New Year! I hope 2021 starts off smoothly for everyone
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Petty cash has been discussed a few times here over the years, & I'd like to get some feedback about it please, especially if you're in a non gov school.
We've gone cashless this year, & our business manager isn't offering any electronic replacement for cash, eg. debit/Coles/Woolies cards. The instructions are that we try to only shop at places the school has an account with, & anywhere else we'll have to pay for it ourselves & get reimbursed.
One problem is, as an IB school, our IAs & EEs get huge, with 30-40 kids each often needing weird & hard to find stuff, from places & online stores that don't offer an invoice on account option, including eBay & Amazon sometimes. Myself & the other lab techs here have been paying on our own credit cards & getting reimbursed for years, using the petty cash to get mostly smaller/urgent/everyday grocery type stuff. Without that petty cash buffer we'll be spending even more of our own money, & we're trying to get some info (dare I say ammunition) together to take back to the business manager.
If you don't mind sharing, & if you've gone cashless, can you please let me know what, if any, alternatives have been set up for you at your school to buy resources for pracs etc?
If we can take a list of things other schools have done we might stand a better chance of changing managements minds
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Thanks!