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29 Jun 2015: the planet as purely an economic issue about how we use these commodities is a limiting vision. ... Natural capital has features that most commodities around which we build economic modelling – such as infrastructure, or the products of industrial

4 Sep 2015: These are for Finance Division use only. These Sources of Funds show fixed asset capitalisation and depreciation movements. University policy is that we only capitalise and depreciate assets over £30,000 in value. Depreciation is calculated and

9 Dec 2015: and erosion remodels our coastline – with large economic and social costs.

24 Nov 2015: economic gains.

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 CUFS. Normally only used by the Finance Division or Estate Management.

4 Sep 2015: Detailed information for research grants is held in the Grants / GMS module in CUFS. Summary information is passed into the General Ledger via a nightly interface. Transactions are summarised by Department and by sponsor type. M*** No entries are

4 Sep 2015: Sometimes departments and trust managers may wish to appropriate (transfer) funds from a trust, for example: where funds need to be appropriated to another Department; or where the fund expenditure is large or spread across a number of activities

4 Sep 2015: Many departments receive income from trust funds. Each trust has its own deed that details the rules and regulations concerning its set up and use. Details of each trust are recorded in the University’s statutes & ordinances.

4 Sep 2015: The J Sources of Funds are used to account for non-research grants received from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and other bodies for specific purposes, together with the associated expenditure, whether revenue expenditure

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: Specific donation accounts are set up for funds donated by way of gift to the University (or a Department) for a specific purpose excluding: a contribution to the construction of a building funds which are required to be held as an endowment grants

4 Sep 2015: All these Sources of Funds designate what the University describes as self-supporting activities. They should be self-funding in that they cover all of their related costs. Thus an overriding principle is that the full costs of an activity should be

4 Sep 2015: These are only allocated with permission from the Finance Division. They are specific reserves that arise from budget allocations for specific large projects, eg CAMSIS. They are sometimes referred to as “sinking funds”. Please contact your

7 Jan 2015: a. the social, economic and political context. b. literary context. 2. ... Maintenance of past structures: landed aristocracy, rural plantation society divided between masters and slaves, economic dependency on Europe.

6 Nov 2015: 5 Thomas M. Poole, Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics. The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law. ... London School of Economics 1948-69. 12 Lon Luvois Fuller, (1902-1978), Professor of Law, Harvard 13 Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart, (1907-92),

23 Oct 2015: Tom Cochrane: Open access has three points of origin. These, in no particular order, are the interests of the researcher in greater exposure and readership; the distorted economics of the price

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.

6 Aug 2015: Click on the image to download the checklist Excel: PDF:

1 Apr 2015: At year end, departments should follow the year end timetable issued by the Finance Division and ensure that all Trust Fund transactions are processed before the GL closes. Additionally, they should be prepared to make adjustments in the final

21 Apr 2015: Two short videos demonstrating how to use two tools in X5, 'the Project Setup Wizard' and 'Submitting a costing', have been published on the Research Operations Office X5 website.Further videos will be published over the coming weeks demonstrating

21 Apr 2015: New funder schemes for industrial funders are being added to X5 over the next few weeks to allow users to select schemes that will: Attract 80% fEC Replace previous templates in pFACT that were used for “New Industry Policy” with 70% and 120%

21 Apr 2015: The ability to create an award costing in X5 at Department Administrator and Principal Investigator level has been removed, as this costing type should only be used at Research Office level. If you need to create an award costing for an award not

21 Apr 2015: The new Research Pricing and Costing Tool being developed to replace pFACT, X5, is now in the second phase of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and members of the research community are needed to test the system.

21 Apr 2015: A new Research Pricing and Costing Tool is currently being developed to replace pFACT. The system, which is currently called X5, is now in the second phase of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and members of the research community are needed to test

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that X5 will be upgraded on Monday 3rd March and to allow MISD time to perform the upgrade the system will be unavailable between 8am and 12 noon. The upgrade being performed is a like for like upgrade with little change to the

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that X5 will be unavailable on Monday 3rd March between 08:00am and 12:00 noon to allow MISD to perform an upgrade to the system.Users have been advised separately regarding this downtime but it is important to note that once the

21 Apr 2015: 1. The New Funder Form has been updated with an additional funder budget heading and is available here.2. A new line has been added to the warnings section (p6) of the Validation Guide and is available here.3. UIS are planning an upgrade of the X5

21 Apr 2015: X5 has now been rolled out to all users and can be accessed from anywhere in the world.  The new system has already been used to create over 200 new proposals and users have been supported by the Research Operations Office and MISD.

21 Apr 2015: X5 Update This week we are continuing with UAT testing and are grateful to the volunteers who are working with us during this period. This is an important phase as the feedback we receive from our testers  ensures X5 meets the demands that will be

21 Apr 2015: We would like to apologise for any inconvenience cause by the unplanned outage of X5 this morning. Unfortunately any work performed within X5 from 8:30 until 9:45 is likely to be lost and will have to be rekeyed. We are currently investigating this

21 Apr 2015: Prerequisite: Must have attended a Full Economic Costing (fEC) / Income Allocation Policy (IAP) Seminar during the last 3 years.

21 Apr 2015: Prerequisite: Must have attended a Full Economic Costing (fEC) / Income Allocation Policy (IAP) Seminar during the last 3 years.

21 Apr 2015: Prerequisite: Must have attended a Full Economic Costing (fEC) / Income Allocation Policy (IAP) Seminar during the last 3 years.

4 Jun 2015: The Research Operations Office is again offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff who are required to generate costings for their departments, to attend one of these events. The content will include; using the Project Wizard

21 Apr 2015: There will be 2 further X5 “hands on” training sessions on Wednesday 19 June at the following times, 09:00 – 12:30 13:30 - 17:00 These are a repeat of the sessions from 18 and 19 April. The training will take place at the Physics MCS Room

24 Jul 2015: The Research Operations Office is again offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff, both academic and administrative, who are required to generate costings for themselves or for their departments, to attend one of these events.

6 Aug 2015: The Research Operations Office is again offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff, both academic and administrative, who are required to generate costings for themselves or for their departments, to attend one of these events.

15 Oct 2015: The Research Operations Office is again offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff, both academic and administrative, who are required to generate costings for themselves, or for their departments, to attend one of these events.

2 Oct 2015: The Research Operations Office is again offering X5 training and would like to invite departmental staff, both academic and administrative, who are required to generate costings for themselves, or for their departments, to attend one of these events.

7 Aug 2015: Submission reports are available in the X5 system to provide the Department with a clear and concise breakdown of information required for their grant application. The breakdown of costs for an External Partner/s will now be reflected in the

21 Apr 2015: A new FAQ has been added to the X5 submission reports about a type of warning message. Please refer to p5 for more details.

21 Apr 2015: A salary file update will be applied to X5 on Monday 5th August. This is to allow for the following salary changes: Changes to National Insurance contribution rates from 06 April 2013 Changes to Clinical Grades from April 2013 These changes will

21 Apr 2015: The X5 Research Pricing and Costing project is now in the final phase of testing.   Further to previous communications, the User Acceptance Testing dates and venues have now been arranged.  If you would like to take part in this testing ple

21 Apr 2015: On the 24th October both Cambridge and Oxford Universities agreed that X5 core functionality was covered to an acceptable level and that individual University configuration of the software could now commence.The Cambridge X5 Project Team is now

21 Apr 2015: The first rounds of Early Adopters training have taken place this week and these users can now create live costings in X5.For more information on X5, training and live roll out, please visit http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/research/applying/x5

21 Apr 2015: The X5 Project will be conducting the final round of User Acceptance Testing for 2 weeks, commencing 4 March 2013.  The session times are:Clinical Schools – 4th March and 12th March17 Mill Lane – 6th March and 11th MarchGreenwich House – 7th

21 Apr 2015: In line with fEC guidelines, the University has to implement revised full economic cost rates from February each year.

21 Apr 2015: In line with fEC guidelines, the University has to implement revised full economic cost rates from February each year.

21 Apr 2015: Please be advised that X5 will be unavailable on Monday 4th November between 8am and 8:30am to allow for updating of the submission reports.Updates will be made to the Je-S, Generic and Wellcome reports and will include: Generic and

21 Apr 2015: X5 will be unavailable on Tuesday 23 July between 0800 and 0900 so that routine mainentance and bug fixes can be undertaken.