University Budgets
is a T1 function that brings together all the financial reports and information needed by Faculty and Professional Services colleagues into one central place.
Budget holders must:
- Apply budgets appropriately on University business
- Procure goods/services in a way that secures value for money
- Comply with financial regulations
- Comply with any external funder terms and conditions of funding or grant
- Code and record income and expenditure properly with sufficient documentation to provide a full audit trail
- Not exceed budgeted expenditure
- Deliver any agreed budgets and targets
- Monitor budgets at least monthly via My Finance Portal
- Promptly provide any information and explanations required by the University’s internal or external auditors or any member of Finance Services authorised by the Chief Financial Officer
- Regularly check approval pool membership for all own projects and budget centres and advise relevant finance team whenever any changes are needed.
The within contains:
- Faculty/department budget reports
- PDA balance reports
- Non-research project budget reports
Reporting users can access a view-only version of the dashboard .
Faculty Budget Holder Dashboard Quick Guide
Faculty Budget Holder Dashboard Filter Guide
Glossary of Key Budget Terms for Faculty Reports
Click the image below to watch a video explaining the dashboard:
The 'Professional Services' section of the portal contains live information and reports for Professional Services budget holders and reporting users to enable self-service. This includes:
- Immediate and direct access to reports
- Detailed drilldown of staffing information held in T1 (where access has been granted)
- Ability to view project and non-project finances in one place
- Ability to drilldown to view budgets, transactions (including invoices) and commitments
- Ability to select specific budget(s)/project(s) through filters
PS Budget Holder Dashboard - User Guide 2024
Click the image below to watch a video about the dashboard:
Student Dashboard Guide - step-by-step guide to download and view your budget report in T1.
Help and Support
- For externally funded studentship queries - contact idc-researchfinance@exeter.ac.uk.
- For faculty funded RTSG queries or awarded via bench fees with the tuition fee - contact your faculty finance team:
Portfolio Projects Dashboard Notes (coming soon)
Portfolio Projects Forecasting Pack Notes (coming soon)
How to create a T1 purchase order:
How to get started with the T1 finance system -
Help and support:
- contact points coming soon
To arrange for another member of staff to be given Reporting User Access to view your budget reports in T1, please contact with the following:
- Name and user ID of colleague
- T1 budget centre/project code
Please contact your Faculty finance team if you want them to view any salary costs in that budget.
Please note - reporting user access can only be given to staff, not students.
Once set up, the reporting user can access the reports in the same way as the budget holder - see the relevant report guides in the sections above.
Budget queries
Queries about budgets, transactions or commitments should be directed to the relevant Faculty or Professional Services finance team - see the 'Finance Department Emails' section on our Contact Us page for each team's address.
'How to’ queries about T1
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