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20 Mar 2015: The monthly interest calculation is run by the Treasury & Investments team using balances as at the end of working day four of the month-end processing period. No further deposit movements should be processed after this date. Interest earned varies

20 Mar 2015: Twice a year, departments are sent a summary of their unit holdings as at 31 December and 30 June. Alternatively, departments can run the UFS Transaction Code Balances report at any time to obtain this information.

31 Mar 2015: Assets owned by the University, irrespective of funding source, remain the property the University until sold or destroyed -unless contracts with external sponsors specify otherwise. Responsibility Heads of Departments are responsible for the

11 Aug 2015: X5 is the software used to prepare proposal costings in line with fEC requirements. All new proposals must be costed using X5; awards or contracts which include a financial value will not be accepted unless an X5 costing is completed. There are

4 Sep 2015: These are for donations where the donor has specified that the gift is to be invested for the longer term, but where no trust fund has been established. In most cases the donor has also placed restrictions on the use of the income arising.

4 Sep 2015: Detailed information for research grants is held in the Grants (GMS) module in UFS. Summary information is passed into the General Ledger via a nightly interface. Transactions are summarised by department and by sponsor type.

4 Sep 2015: The codes most used in departmental transaction processing are those beginning E (for non-pay expenditure). The second character clarifies the particular type of expenditure, and the last two characters give the detail.

31 Mar 2015: Goods from the EC If goods are purchased from another EC member state and are brought into the UK then the supplier should not be charged VAT provided that the supplier is advised of the University's VAT number (823 8476 09).

20 Mar 2015: This is done by means of a journal in the GL. In a new batch start a journal in the normal way. Key fields are: Period: For deposits the period will be the current period.

2 Apr 2015: Where possible, donors should be encouraged to make their donation by way of a single lump-sum in GBP sterling.