英文摘要 |
In order to explore the impact of grant policy on private high school finance under the 2014 12-year Basic Education Reform, this study compiles 135 private high schools' final accounts, adopts four categories of indicators: revenue, expenditure, financial balance, and comprehensive financial indicators, to calculate schools' performance from 2012 to 2016SY. The findings are as follows: (1)Among sources of school revenue, governmental grant held the highest percentage of increase in the past five years, and the three-year schools' percentage were higher than the six-year schools'; (2)Among categories of school spending, instructional expenditures and equipment expenditures were the top two categories of increase in the past five years, but capital outlay decreased drastically; (3)The balance of revenue and expenditures of high schools decreased for the first three years, but have been increased since the reform was launched in the last two years; (4)The rate of cash surplus, rate of current surplus, and degree of self-sufficiency of high schools have been declined in the last five years; (5)The increasing trend of dependence on governmental grants of private high schools confirms their decline of fiscal autonomy; (6)The financial gap between threeyear and six-year private high schools have been widened in the last five years. |