Finance Division Taster Sessions - Reporting

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

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