clipped from dallasisd.beloblog.com

A commenter on another thread recently expressed frustration over the district’s on-line check register.

I think we can help.

Click here to download, in an Excel spreadsheet, the last six monthly check registers, dating to the start of this fiscal year.

Have at them.

HOWEVER – there are some caveats that you MUST read before you do any sort of sifting or calculating of this data. Click the jump to read the data caveats.

We have more if anybody wants them.

The dataplanation:

1. The data is exactly as we received it from the district, with the exception that we broke it out by month as an easy way to organize the spreadsheets. Other than that, the data has not been altered in anyway. If a field is blank, that’s how the district gave it to us.

2. Many, many checks are listed multiple times. If, for example, a single check was used to buy multiple items, or items for multiple accounts, this check will be listed for each item and account.

3. The data is best viewed in a database manager