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4 Sep 2015: Sources of financial information The Finance Division produces the following main sources of financial and management information based on General Ledger balances: at Department level monthly departmental summary reports at School / Group level

7 Apr 2015: Accounts Receivable concerns income generated from sales for services rendered with the following steps being involved. Invoice - Raise sales invoice. Send to Customer - Invoice sent to Customer. Receipts - Income collected and receipted. Debt

4 Sep 2015: The P Source of Funds is used for funding received specifically or approved for buildings. The related expenditure should be entered via the Projects module in UFS. Normally this is only used by the Finance Division or Estates Division. Latest

12 Aug 2015: Expenditure is usually recovered through invoicing or an expenditure claim. Most sponsors’ billing is generated through the Grants Module; this means that there is data available to departments on the amount billed per grant.

12 Aug 2015: Following instruction from ROO, Research Accounting transfer any excess income or excess expenditure (ie. overspend) to the departmental research cost centre, with the ED source of funds, and a transaction code LZEG for excess income or AZZN/EZZN

23 Jul 2015: All institutions are required to monitor and control their expenditure to ensure that it is in line with available funds. This section gives guidance on the techniques required and reports available to enable interpretation of actual expenditure

4 Sep 2015: The code consists of four characters: the first identifies what sort of account the transactions should be attributed to and the next three refine this more precisely. The table below is a summary of the Transaction codes used by the University.

10 Aug 2015: Final date for completion Action required Tue 24 Sep Institution Summary Reports will be issued electronically to institutions as follows: Date Interim 1 Fri 2 Aug Interim 2 Thu 22 Aug (following close of AP etc.) Interim 3 Tue 3 Sep

7 Apr 2015: At the year-end the Finance Division will ensure that unspent balances on specific endowments and specific donations will be rolled forward and will be available for spending in the following financial year.

17 Aug 2015: Goods and/or services must not be provided on credit without a customer purchase order or the appropriate written equivalent contract. A customer purchase order provides written confirmation of the customer’s details (e.g., current address,

29 Jul 2015: When funds are received from a body external to the university, the following criteria are used to determine if those funds can be classed as a research grant or should be recorded as something else eg. a donation.

2 Apr 2015: Topics covered in this section are: Consultation with CUDAR re solicitation of donors Power to accept donations under £100,000 Decision to accept restricted donations Receipt of donations Availability of funds Classification of donations

2 Apr 2015: As indicated previously, donations should wherever possible be directed to the Development and Alumni Relations office (CUDAR).

7 Apr 2015: Occasionally a permanent unspent balance will arise on a specific donation/endowment account, where further spending in accordance with the donor's conditions is not possible.

2 Apr 2015: Our coding and classification of donations supports the proper management of the relevant funds in accordance with the donors' wishes.

7 Apr 2015: At the outset arrangements must be established to enable reports to be provided to each donor in line with their requirements. The Development Office provides guidance and details of University procedures on reporting to donors within 'Procedures

19 Mar 2015: The following factors are considered when determining the correct status. They follow the principles used in determining actual employment status, but here are applied to determine whether an individual will be a “deemed employee” for tax

2 Apr 2015: All five sources of funds noted in section Sources of Funds for Donations are eligible for investment in the CUEF Fund and / or the Deposit Account, thus enabling unspent balances to earn investment income as expected.

12 Aug 2015: When a research grant comes to an end the Research Operations Office will perform a number of administrative processes and then close the grant. This may take up to six months, depending on the sponsor and their payment terms.

20 Mar 2015: All applications for research grants and contracts must now be costed on ‘X5’ on a Full Economic Cost (fEC) basis.