Research Finance

This module is aimed at anyone who needs to prepare a business case or who will be involved in reviewing or assessing business cases.It provides an introduction to the topic for those with little or no experience of preparing a business case. While it includes an overview of the financial elements of a business case, it does not assume any financial expertise.

This course aimed at all staff in a university to increase understanding of money laundering regulations, how to spot money laundering red flags in a university and what you should do.

An introductory e-learning course on commercialisation and how intellectual property is central to this activity.

This session will help you understand what the Criminal Finances Act 2017 is, and how it impacts universities. It also shows you what you need to do to protect yourself, and support your HEI.

This course will introduce the role of the Finance function in HE, what Finance do and why. The course will explore financial rules and regulations, financial reporting standards and financial sustainability. The module then moves on to financial information in HE, starting with the annual finance cycle, then to onto to financial statements and internal financial management.

This session will help you understand what Modern Slavery is and how it might impact your institution.

A two-part, in-depth course covering reliefs and schemes available to universities so that import VAT and/or duty is not payable on the importation of goods from outside the UK.

This course covers the basic rules and considerations for the import of goods into the UK whether those goods are purchased, loaned, donated or sent free of charge.

This introductory module will help improve your awareness of the risk of fraud in your institution, and what you can do to prevent it.

This course will be helpful to those responsible for dealing with financial transactions in universities, such as budgeting, purchasing or generating income. It provides an overview of how VAT applies specifically in the higher education sector but is not intended to be a fully comprehensive guide.

This module looks at how university/higher education research is funded, some of the important concepts to understand, as well as the different elements of the research award cycle.

This course will be helpful to you if you are responsible for deciding whether to charge VAT on income received by a university for a research project, or need to understand whether VAT should be included in the cost of a research project.

This course is aimed at anyone within a university who needs to purchase a product or service. The course covers what a specification is and why a good specification is important. It will also take you through how to write a good specification including the different types of specification you may require. This course will supplement internal guidance.

This course looks at the human rights issues faced by organisations in general, and in particular in their supply chain. There are a series of detailed topics and a couple of quizzes to test your learning.