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A - Z index

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  • Banking and Treasury

    Chapter setting out the University's banking and treasury arrangements.
  • Benefit in kind

    Chapter explaining the University’s policy on Travel and Other Expenses, Benefits, Hospitality and Gifts; provides the necessary information in order to comply with obligations under the self-assessment income tax regime.
  • Budgeting

    Chapter setting out, in outline only, the key features of the University’s budgetary system.
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  • Campus Card

  • Campus Card

  • Capital Expenditure

    Chapter providing an overview of the University’s arrangements for capital expenditure
  • Cash

    Form necessary to claim/reclaim petty cash
  • Chart of Accounts

    The University’s financial system, FOCUS, relies upon the use of various coding structures, together called the ‘Chart of Accounts’, to produce financial and management accounting information. The use of certain codes is mandatory for each of accounting entry made in FOCUS to ensure the quality of input and that information can be readily produced in the format. This chapter details these mandatory requirements.
  • Coding structures

  • Coding structures

  • Complaints Procedure

    Policy detailing the Finance complaints procedure.
  • Conference Attendees

    Information regarding VAT exemption for conference attendees
  • Consultancy and Other Related Income

    University Consultancy is a service where expertise is provided by a member of staff at the University to an external client for a fee or in-kind benefit, to help them solve a problem. For further information, please refer to the Consultancy pages, or to the Chapter setting out the University’s policy on consultancy and other related income.
  • Corporate Planning

    Policy statement setting out the role of Finance in the University’s corporate planning process.
  • Credit Account

  • Credit and Charge Cards

    Chapter setting out University policy on the provision of credit and charge cards for members of staff.
  • Credit Control

    Guide explaining the processes for collecting payment due against invoices raised on outside bodies.
  • Credit/ Debit card payments

    If you are taking or wish to take card payments on behalf of the University then you will need to do so in a manner which is within the Universities PCI-DSS compliance obligations.
  • Currency

    Form necessary to request a payment in foreign currency
  • Customer

    Interactive form used to set up new customer accounts with the University
  • Customs Duty

    Information regarding Customs Duty can be found at the following page.
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  • DUNS Number

    21-450-6664
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  • Finance coding structures

  • Finance coding structures

  • Financial Delegations

    Chapter setting out the University’s arrangements for delegation of financial authority.
  • Financial Manual

    The Financial Manual is an essential component in ensuring the effective, efficient and consistent applications of financial controls and systems within the University. The Manual sets out in detail the University's key financial policies and procedures that need to be followed. The Manual is supplemented by a series of Practical Guides on items of particular interest to academic and administrative staff concerned with financial matters.
  • Financial Planning and Analysis

    The Financial Planning and Analysis (Management Accounts)Team are responsible for the reparation of annual budgets and production of financial forecasts and reports.
  • Financial Regulations

    The University of Reading Financial Regulations, which have been approved by the Council, set out the responsibility for financial matters within the University and, in broad terms, the financial policies and procedures to be followed within the University. The Financial Regulations are supported by a Financial Manual which sets out in more detail how the various financial activities and processes within the University should operate. In addition, within Finance, a Working Instruction Manual supports our part of the activities and processes in more detail.
  • Financial Statements

  • Financial Systems

  • Fixed Assets

    Chapters setting out the University’s procedures regarding fixed assets. This chapter covers Admissible Capital Costs and Approval for the Purchase of Fixed Assets.

  • Foreign Currency Transactions

    Chapter providing an overview of arrangements within the University for dealing with foreign currency transactions.
  • Foreign Payments

    Form necessary to request a payment in foreign currency
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  • Gifts

    Chapter explaining the University’s policy on Travel and Other Expenses, Benefits, Hospitality and Gifts; provides the necessary information in order to comply with obligations under the self-assessment income tax regime.
  • Government Funding

    Chapter providing an overview of the University’s funding from the Office for Students and UK Research and Innovation.
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  • Health & Safety

  • Hospitality

    Guide explaining the University’s policy on Travel and Other Expenses, Benefits, Hospitality and Gifts; provides the necessary information in order to comply with obligations under the self-assessment income tax regime.
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  • Import Duty

  • Income

    Chapter providing information on the general principles and accounting treatment in the University accounts, relating to the recognition of income and expenditure on contracts which generate receipts or payments in a different accounting period to that in which the activity takes place as well as contracts which straddle more than one accounting period.
  • Internal Reporting

    Policy statement setting out the internal financial reporting that Finance provides within the University.
  • Internal Trading

    Please contact Management Accounts for a template, and Financial Systems for a range of Internal invoice numbers (necessary to complete the form).
  • Internal Transactions

    Chapter setting out the University’s requirements in respect of internal trading
  • Investment Appraisal

    Policy statement setting out the methods and criteria to be used in carrying out investment appraisals within the University.
  • Invoices - Sales

    Please contact Sales and Credit Control for a range of external invoice numbers (necessary to complete the Internal Trading form).
  • Invoices - Sales

    Please contact Sales and Credit Control for a template.
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  • Journals

    Guide explaining how journals are processed within Finance.
  • Journals

    Chapter setting out the University’s policy on journal creation, approval and upload onto the U4BW (Agresso) Finance System.
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  • Leases

    Chapter defining the approval procedures for leases, the accounting requirements and the records that must be kept so that statutory disclosure requirements can be met.
  • Long Term Borrowing

    Chapter setting out the University’s arrangements for entering into long-term borrowing or similar arrangements.
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  • Money laundering

    Policy setting out the principles which are designed to give confidence that all funds transacted through the University’s accounts have been processed in accordance with statutory requirements and to minimise the risk of the University’s funds being used for improper purposes.
  • Monthly Accounting Deadlines

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  • Payments

  • PCI-DSS

    PCI-DSS is a set of security standards put in place by the Payment Card Industry in order to prevent data breaches and the theft of customer payment card data by malicious entities. Learn about the Universities PCI-DSS obligations.
  • Petty Cash

    Form necessary to claim/reclaim petty cash
  • Procurement

    Procurement website
  • Project Request Form

    Form necessary to request a new project from Management Accounts.
  • Provisions and Contingencies

    Policy statement covering the criteria which must be met before a provision can be established, examples of major provisions currently in place, how such provisions are managed, including how charges against them are approved, and describes mechanisms for adjusting provisions over time. In addition it covers contingent liabilities.
  • Purchasing cards

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  • Receipts Office

    The Receipts Office is responsible for the receiving of income to the University.
  • Reference Numbers

    Duns Number 21-450-6664
  • Refunds to students

    Policy detailing how to refund students.
  • Research Accounts

    Guidance documents relating to fEC (full economic costing) and information relating to the financial administration of research projects.
  • Research Accounts

    Information detailing Post Award Procedures
  • Research Accounts

    Research Accounts (RA) deal with the post award administration of sponsored research grants and contracts, Short Courses, and the Research Endowment Trust Fund.
  • Research and Enterprise (RE)

    Research and Enterprise (RE) provide a range of services to support academic staff at the University.
  • Research Contracts

    Research Contracts provide legal advice and authorisation for Research and Enterprise activities.
  • Retention of Documents

    Chapter setting out the requirements for the retention of prime (original) documents and advice on the retention of other documents of a financial nature.
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  • Sales and Credit Control

    The primary function of the Sales and Credit Control office is to ensure that all money due on credit is paid within the terms agreed.
  • Sales Invoicing

    Please contact Credit Control for a range of external invoice numbers (necessary to complete the Internal Trading form).
  • Sales Invoicing

    Please contact Credit Control for a template.
  • SDAs

    Guide explaining the creation and subsequent use of Staff Development Accounts (SDAs).
  • Self Employment

    Employment Status Questionnaire and guidance, to be completed where you are engaging a person or business to undertake work on behalf of the University.
  • Stocks

    Guide explaining what constitutes a stock holding and how to account for it, inlcuding link to Year End Memo.
  • Stocks

    Chapter defining the accounting requirements for recording in-year movements of stocks and the closing stock valuation.
  • Student Payments

  • Students Union

    Chapter setting out the arrangements for the University exercising oversight of the financial affairs of the Students’ Union, and the arrangements for the annual determination of the Block Grant provided by the University to the Students’ Union.
  • Subsidiary companies

    Chapter explaining the position of Trusts, subsidiaries (Bodies outside the main University Administration) and other organisations related to the University.
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  • Tax

    The second edition of the Charity Tax Map, a detailed and comprehensive guide to taxes, exemptions and reliefs applicable to charities.
  • Tax

    Responsibilities of the tax team.
  • Tax on Expense Claims

    Chapter explaining the University’s policy on Travel and Other Expenses, Benefits, Hospitality and Gifts; provides the necessary information in order to comply with obligations under the self-assessment income tax regime.
  • Taxation

    Chapter setting out the arrangements for dealing with the tax affairs of the University and its subsidiary companies and Trusts.
  • Technical Financial Accounting

    Technical financial accounting activities include: producing statatory accounts for the University, financial accounts for the University's subsidiaries and trusts, preparing P11Ds and PAYE settlement agreeements, training and advice on Employment and Self-Employment and company secretarial services, plus many more.
  • Terms & Conditions of Sale

    Page detailing the University's terms and conditions of sale
  • Trading

    Please contact Financial Systems for a range of Internal invoice numbers (necessary to complete the Internal Trading form).
  • Treasury

    Treasury look after a number of areas including: daily and long-term cash flow forecasting, petty cash float applications, managing Tritorr, foreign payments, managing the University’s short term investments and accounting for all capital expenditure in the University.
  • Trust Funds

    Chapter setting out the arrangements for the discharging of the University’s responsibilities as Trustee of a number of Trusts.
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  • Value for Money

    Chapter setting out the University of Reading's responsibility to achieve value for money (VFM) for all its activities, regardless of their source of funding.
  • VAT

    As an educational charity the University is an ‘Eligible Body’ and is entitled to certain exemptions in respect of VAT, but this does not mean it can ignore VAT. The VAT team handle all VAT queries. This page also contains links to VAT guidance notes and other useful documents.
  • VAT

    Chapter setting out the University’s arrangements in the area of Value Added Tax (VAT).
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  • Working Capital

    Chapter covering the management and control of the University’s working capital.
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