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Acquisitions from Consulting Funds

Approving Authority: Council
Establishment Date: 26 March 1997
Date Last Amendment:
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Date Last Reviewed: October 2005
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Contact Officer: Director, Financial Services

10.5

Introduction

Some academic and general staff have established consulting fund accounts from which assets, eg. computing equipment have been purchased. Assets purchased in this manner are university property and are recorded in the asset register.

Principle

Assets held by or on behalf of the University, and financed from consulting funds, are in every respect the property of the university.

Procedure

10.5.1 Assets acquired and funded from consulting funds will be:

  • recorded in the asset register;
  • subject to annual stocktake procedures;
  • subject to disposal procedures;
  • subject to procedures relating to assets held off campus.