THE MONEY ROOM

THE MONEY ROOM

Fees, finance, and why some schools survive while others merely suffer.

Every school has a Money Room — the place, physical or mental, where the real financial decisions get made. In some schools, it's a drawer of unpaid invoices and a bursar who dreads Fridays. In others, it's a system that has quietly turned survival into stability, and stability into growth.

The Money Room takes you inside that room. Drawing on years spent behind the camera and inside workshops with school directors across Africa, Allan Richie lays out the hard financial truths that most school owners are never taught — and are too proud, too busy, or too scared to ask about.

This isn't a textbook on accounting. It's a field guide for the director who is tired of firefighting.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Break the "survival trance" — the exhausting cycle of reactive, crisis-only money management
• Write a fees policy that stops chasing parents for balances term after term
• Tell the difference between borrowing to build and borrowing to breathe
• Get ahead of the taxman before he comes looking for you
• Stop the small leaks — food, salaries, informal purchasing — that quietly bankrupt schools
• Protect your school (and your marriage) when family and ownership start to blur
• Build the habits — budgeting, tracking, reserves — that make up a real Money Room
• Move your school from suffering, to stability, to genuine profit

Who this book is for

Head teachers, school owners, and directors — especially those running private schools in cash-tight, high-pressure environments — who are ready to stop guessing with money and start leading with it.

About the author

Allan Richie is an education advocate who has spent years documenting schools and sitting in workshops with school directors, listening to the financial confessions of leaders who have both survived and struggled. This book is built from what he has watched, term after term, separate the schools that endure from the schools that merely survive.

Practical, direct, and unflinching — The Money Room is for any school leader ready to stop firefighting and start building, one system at a time.

📩 Questions before you buy? Reach the author directly:

Phone: +256 753 949 555 | Email: [email protected] | Web: richiekey.com

Also by Allan Richie: The Modern Teacher · Policies That Transform · The Weight of the School · The Boardroom and the Blackboard · Take Up the Torch · Enrollment Engine · Teaching That Transforms — and more.