Scroll — the board pack, the receipt, the household, a child who still owes.
Board
Specimen
Collection · Second term
As of 12 March · Riverside Bilingual College
Charged
86 400 000 FCFA
Collected
79 488 000 FCFA
Still open
6 912 000 FCFA
Rate
92%
Collected this week
4 180 000 FCFA
Class
On roll
Rate
Form 5A
42
96%
Form 5B
40
94%
3e A
36
91%
Charged, collected, still open — the pack the bursar and the board actually sit with.
Receipt
Specimen
Riverside Bilingual College
Work, and the work will show.
Receipt
RC-2026-0847
12 Mar 2026
Pupil
Fomba Aïcha
Class
Form 5A
Tuition
Received
Tuition
Second term
45 000 FCFA
Received
45 000 FCFA
In words Forty-five thousand CFA francs
Balance remaining: Settled
The paper in the hand. A number, the amount in words, and a settled line.
Household
Specimen
Household
Fomba · 12 March
Fomba Aïcha · Form 5ASettled
Fomba Malik · Class 6Settled
Fomba Idriss · 3e A85 000 FCFA
Fomba Amina · Nursery 2Settled
Still open85 000 FCFA
One father, four children. Three are settled. One still has a line open.
Statement
Specimen
Fomba Idriss
3e A · 2024-0318
Charged
185 000 FCFA
Still open
85 000 FCFA
Date
Entry
Running
12 Jan
Second-term tuition
185 000 FCFA
3 Feb
Payment
RC-2026-0612
85 000 FCFA
Why the balance is what it is — charged, paid, still open — in date order.
First, the money
School fees that still add up at four in the afternoon
In most schools the fee position lives in a ledger, three exercise books and the bursar's memory. Here it is one screen, and it is still right at four in the afternoon on the day a father asks.
Every balance, per child and per class
Charged, paid, still open — for one child, for Form 5A, for the whole school. The figure the bursar can read out in the meeting, not a total that has to be unpicked first.
A numbered receipt at the desk
Take the money, print the receipt, hand it over. The number on the paper is the number in the record, and a correction is a void plus a new line — so the ledger a parent was shown in October still exists in July.
One payment, four children
A father pays once for four. The money is applied to the four charges it actually settles, so the household is one line, not four.