The Certified Annual Financial Report is a report of financial data required by Iowa Code to be filed annually with the Department of Education by each school district and area education agency and which is due no later than September 15 following the close of the fiscal year.

The Chart of Account upload and online data collection are located at www.edinfo.state.ia.us. Below are the specifications for the software providers, districts, and area education agencies, the instructions for the CAR, and certified annual reports by district and area education agency for past years.

Contacts:

Denise Ragias -- for help with the uploads and reports

Janice Evans -- for help with account codes and journal entries

• On this page...

• Instructions
• User Information
• CAR-COA by District/AEA
• Expenditures from Categorical Funding in the General Fund, by District and AEA

Instructions

 2011-12 CAR Instructions

 FY12 School Association Reporting Instructions

 FY12 School Level Expenditures Instructions

User Information

Best Practices for a Successful and Timely CAR

Chart of Account Upload File Specifications

GASB 54 Powerpoint link

How to use the CAR-COA Upload

 2011-12 Commodities

 2012-13 Sources for Local Projects

 2012-13 District AEA Flowthrough Amounts

 

CAR-COA by District/AEA - Fiscal Years 2006 through 2010

Many districts have asked for information from the CAR-COA be made available in a format similar to the forms below for comparative purposes.  These workbooks have been created from queries.

 2010-11 CAR (19.63 MB)

2009-10 CAR (19.54 MB)

2008-09 CAR (19.08 MB)

2007-08 CAR (18.81 MB)
2007-08 Non-fiscal CAR (1.97 MB)

2006-07 CAR (18.67 MB)
2006-07 Non-fiscal CAR (1.71 MB)

2005-06 CAR (18.6 MB)
2005-06 Non-fiscal CAR (1.51 MB)

Expenditures from Categorical Funding in the General Fund, by District and AEA

This information comes from the CAR-COA as submitted by each district and AEA. Many requests are received for this information which was not available through the query tool at this level of detail.  Spreadsheets on state and local categorical funding (grants-in-aid and budgetary allocations) are being published on this website as they are completed.

 FY11 Expenditures from Categorical Funding

Links

Click here to link to the Uniform Financial Accounting Manual, Chart of Account Descriptions, Chart of Account Coding, and School Finance Terminology.

EdInfo Upload

Iowa Education Portal Sign-in

FAQs
Certified Annual Report (CAR-COA) FAQs