Finance & Planning Group

Finance & Planning Group

The Finance and Planning Group provides business advice and commercial discipline to enable the University to do sustainable, world class teaching and research.

Announcements & Helpful Hints

New Chart of Account Cost Centre Definition
Cost Centre is the second segment of the new Chart of Accounts and represents an organisational grouping within each budget division. Please refer to the agreed Cost Centre definition document communicated by Alan Tait on 6th March 2012.

Chart of Account Freeze
A freeze on the creation of new Chart of Account sections and group codes will occur from Friday 9th March 2012. This is required to ensure a fixed point of data for the chart of account mapping work to be undertaken as part the of the Themis Improvement Project. Please refer to the attached Chart of Account Freeze circular sent via email 5th March 2012 by Allan Tait to all Faculty and Divisional Managers.

Updated Permanent and Casual Salary Calculators with the new EB rates effective from 14th April 2012 are now available.  Click the Salary Calculator link under the Reference Materials area. 
Note: you will need to enter your network password to download the Calculator and enable the macros in each file before use.

Looking for missing income?
Please refer to the listings of Unidentified Funds which log unknown funds that are currently in the University of Melbourne’s bank account.

Which Themis responsibilities are required to run finance reports?
Refer to the Finance Reports by Responsibility table for guidance.

Cashier Opening Hours
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 9:30am to 12:30pm

The Economic Role of International Students Fees in Australian Universities
The purpose of this paper is to describe a financial and statistical model that has been developed by the University of Melbourne to analyse the role of international student fees in the Australian university sector.

Certain pages of the Finance & Planning Group website are only accessible via the 'Unimelb' login.

Key Dates this Month

Monday 14th May
Petty Cash & Advances Rec's Due
Thursday 24th May
Finance Liaison Group Meeting
Monday 21st May
Finance Committee