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Payroll Cost Recoveries from Independent Organisations

Approving Authority: Council
Establishment Date: 26 March 1997
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Contact Officer: Director, Financial Services

13.3

Introduction

A number of Flinders University employees are contracted to undertake services for external agencies, eg. Flinders Medical Centre and the Repatriation Hospital. Cost recoveries are made on the basis of an agreed percentage related to the time deployed at the external organisation.

Principle

Salaries and salary related expenses of Flinders University personnel contracted to Flinders Medical Centre through the Clinical Academic Agreement with the South Australian Health Commission will be recovered at cost plus a 5% administration charge.

Salaries and salary related expenses of Flinders University personnel contracted to the Repatriation General Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre and other bodies will be recovered at cost.

Procedure

13.3.1 Employees will be paid by Flinders University and costs allocated proportionate to time employed at Flinders University and the external organisation.

13.3.2 The costs apportioned to Flinders University will be debited to the employee's home cost centre.

13.3.3 The costs apportioned to the external organisation will be debited to a recovery account.

13.3.4 Human resource management personnel will extract data from the recovery accounts and calculate the amount due from each organisation.

13.3.5 Some contracts provide for monthly or quarterly reimbursement in arrears and there are some which are payable in advance.

13.3.6 In the case of the Clinical Academic Agreement with the South Australian Health Commission through Flinders Medical Centre 5% will be added to the cost recorded in the recovery account to cover administration charges.

13.3.7 Details of the calculation will be sent to the General Accounts Office where an invoice will be raised for despatch to the organisation.

13.3.8 Any queries arising from the invoice will be directed to the Payroll Section who will initiate adjustments if required.

12.3.9 Accounting entries are as follows:

Accounting entries
Function Action
Payment of salary to employee DR — Recovery Account
CR — Bank
Invoice raised DR — Sundry Debtors
CR — Recovery Account
Payment of invoice DR — Bank
CR — Sundry Debtors
CR — Income (FMC 5%)

13.3.10 Follow up action in the event of non-payment will be processed (as per section, 5.8).