Nsites · City of Indianapolis Charter School Intelligence Platform

OEI Financial Validation Lab

Nsites CQ2 calculation, source traceability & replication validation

Reviewer: Allan Bell - Nsites
Run sealed 04 Sep 2026 · 18:16 UTC
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Manual exceptions and review meeting items

Every point where a human accounting decision was required, with the treatment applied and its effect on the result.

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6 items · 6 not yet approved
Rows shown in red are the items causing this measure to fall short of 100% — they are listed first.
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JQ-001believeCurrent RatioShould the school-only or consolidated column be used for Believe's short-term health metrics?School-only columnYes — fully reconcilesPending reviewOpen
JQ-002believeDays Cash on HandOEI/CAP included the $92,400 trustee-held debt-service reserve in the Days Cash numerator and reported 66 days. Should that reserve have been excluded as restricted cash, which would reduce the result to 61 days?Exclude the $92,400 trustee-held reserve as restricted cash (our Nsites position), pending written OEI confirmationNo — variance remainsPending reviewOpen
JQ-003matchbookDays Cash on HandShould the board-designated operating reserve be excluded from unrestricted cash?ExcludeYes — fully reconcilesPending reviewOpen
JQ-004matchbookDebt DefaultWhy this is flagged: Matchbook's audit (34960A.pdf p. 14, Note 7) discloses a debt covenant violation that the lender cured with a waiver. The published report treated this as no default. Nothing is wrong with the numbers — this item exists as a point of future reference: how should a waived covenant violation be described if the same situation recurs in a future year?Report as covenant violation with waiverNot a variancePending reviewOpen
JQ-005gpaFinancial Reporting RequirementsWhy this is flagged: Financial Reporting Requirements is scored from OEI's own submission log (did the school file each required report on time). That log is an OEI internal record — it is not in any document the schools provided, so there is no source data to calculate from. The question being posed: without the log, do we honestly mark the metric Unable to Validate, or do we copy OEI's published rating? This item resolves nothing numerically — its purpose is to protect the integrity of the replication scores.Mark Unable to ValidateNot a variancePending reviewOpen
JQ-006believeDebt Service Coverage RatioWhy this is flagged: the DSCR formula changed between framework versions. The 2025-26 framework (p. 21) includes amortization of debt issuance costs in the numerator; the 2023-24 framework — and CAP's historical practice — excluded it. The question exists because the choice is year-dependent, not a matter of preference: applying the wrong year's rule to a historical period manufactures a variance that isn't real.Include for FY2024-25; exclude for FY2023-24 periodsYes — fully reconcilesPending reviewOpen
Rows shown in red are items not yet approved.