24 September 2024 
Joni Rhodes, BUFDG Project Manager
We’re pleased to let you know that we’ve just launched a new updated version of our Accounting for Pensions guide. Originally published in 2020, the guide is written for university governors, non-accounting staff, students, staff representatives and student representatives as well as for Finance Directors and colleagues in finance teams tasked with producing financial statements and accompanying notes. The Guide is not a 30-minute quick-read to furnish the reader with a full understanding of a topic that takes accountants many hours to learn. Rather, it is designed to help readers who start with different levels of understanding to navigate the numbers and extensive notes to the accounts to appreciate why pension schemes can cause significant impacts on universities’ reported results and reserves.
We are grateful for Peter Fielding for his work on the latest revisions.
We have recently refreshed our Understanding University Finance guide, and will be publishing a revised edition of the guide to UK Universities and Tax in the coming months.
These can all be downloaded from the Understanding Finance pages.
