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Periodic Reports to Managers

Approving Authority: Council

Establishment Date: 24 May 1996

Date Last Amendment: 8 December 2005
Nature of Amendment: Procedures 2.1 deleted

Date Last Reviewed: 6 September 2006

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Contact Officer: Director, Financial Services

1. Introduction
1.1 To assist cost centre managers in their role of financial management, periodic reports are available which provide actual income and expenditure data, together with information on budgets and commitments. The reports are compiled every month.
1.2 Information will be provided on current period transactions and the cumulative year to date and commitments recorded by way of salaries and purchase orders. There are separate reports pertinent to various levels of management within the university as well as specific target groups, eg.:
• Cost Centre Managers;
• Grant Holders;
• Capital Project Officers;
• Managers of commercial undertakings.
1.3 Internal management reports will be compiled on the basis of a twelve month accounting period with a thirteenth period for depreciation only. Reports will be available either electronically, which can be downloaded into spreadsheets or emailed, and in hard copy form. The reports can be produced by the end user.

2.

Procedures
2.1

At the end of each monthly accounting period the FUST Office will arrange for closure of the various modules of the Flinders Finance System.

2.2 At the conclusion of the period end processing, reports will be generated on the system.
2.3 Personnel will have the option of viewing reports on screen or printing hard copy on a local printer.