Finance Division Taster Sessions - Financial Reporting New
To provide an opportunity for someone from elsewhere in Finance Division to spend half a day in the Financial Reporting Team to get an overview and appreciation of what they do.
Staff within the Finance Division only
Number of sessions: 1
# | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer |
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1 | Tue 15 Dec 2015 13:30 - 16:30 | 13:30 - 16:30 |
Chart of accounts.
For each of the 5 different segments:
- Design and purpose
- Documentation and sources of advice
- Impact on financial statements
- Tricky areas (donations, transfers, etc)
Data handling and working papers
- TB - Access database
- Cognos GL datamarts
- Pivot tables
- Expenditure query / FS from TB / Other income analysis
University level financial reporting
A review of the regular internal and external financial reports, explaining the purpose of each and the relationship between them:
- Financial statements / FMI / HESA FSR / heidi / HEFCE Annual Return / Office of National Statistics / Red Book / Key data
- Optional elements: SORP / consolidation
Audit trail
- Running through the trail behind figures in the financial statements / Red Book
- Can either be general or focussed on your area of work or interest
- Improve knowledge of the chart of accounts, including the impact of coding decisions on financial reporting
- See different techniques in handling large volumes of financial data
- Understand the types of internal and external reporting
- Understand the relationship between your own work and figures appearing in the University’s financial statements / Red Book
Half Day
Monthly
Booking / availability