1.3 Financial Management, Capacity Matters, Reporting

Division Head Bettina Frühling - B2.207, 60 - 2561
Deputy Britta Götte - B2.214, 60 - 3875

Staff

Melanie Diehl – B2.301, 60 - 2541
Britta Götte - B2.214, 60 - 3875
Tatjana Gorte – B2.301, 60 - 3259
Jan-Philipp Haselhorst - B2.212, 60 - 2556
Sonja Klöpping - B2.310, 60 - 4395
Yannick Lorenz - B2.209, 60 - 2517
Verena Schlothane - B2.310, 60 - 5590

Financial Management

• Financial Resource Planning
  • Distribution and provision of funds from the grant budget, quality improvement funds from the Higher Education Pact budget and from other special MKW funds
  • Statements on special applications and distribution proposals
  • Overall Expenditure controlling
  • Preparation of the business plan, management report and annual report
     
• Fund allocation models
  • Acquisition, preparation and updating of basic statistical data for university-internal code-oriented allocation models (staff numbers, investments, students, graduates, doctoral and postdoctoral degrees, external funding)
  • Implementation of new allocation criteria and/or models, alignment/adjustment/verification of parameters for nationwide allocation models
  • General and specific documentation and information about funds allocation channels, criteria and models
     
• Personnel Cost Budgeting and Structural Matters
  • Design and further development of university-internal personnel cost budgeting
  • Personnel cost projections
  • Annual preparation of human resources budget for faculties and central institutions
  • Advisory statements on the structural, human and financial resources of faculties and institutions
  • Advisory statements on the establishment and staffing of professorships
     
• Cost Accounting
  • Implementation of cost accounting
  • Preparation of cost and activity data for external reporting requirements as well as internal university decisions
  • Maintenance of accounting objects on basic and summarisation levels for all areas, except external funds
  • Evaluation of alternative workflows from a cost accounting perspective

Capacity Matters

• General capacity matters
• Determination of annual admission capacity for teaching divisions
• Reasoning, calculation and application for admission restrictions for first and higher semesters
• Coordination of admission restrictions for first and higher semesters with faculties
• Calculation of programme-specific attrition rates
• Maintenance/Updating of the service obligation
• Determination of curricular values (CW) for newly created degree programmes and updating of existing CWs
• Discussion of proposed admission numbers with the MKWMKW (Ministry of Culture and Science in North Rhine-Westphalia)
• Capacity statement for newly-established degree programmes as well as reaccreditation of existing degree programmes
• Capacity statement in case of proposed reductions in teaching workloads
• Capacity utilisation calculations
• Survey of course listings

University Reporting and Controlling Matters

• Development and systematisation of data from existing computer/IT applications
• Documentation of basic university data (students, graduates, doctoral and postdoctoral degrees, staff, budget, external funds) according to various criteria and presentation in tabular and graphic form
• Compilation, systematisation and, if applicable, annotation of data for planning purposes
• Preparation of indicators and time lines for internal and university-wide comparison
• Verification of centrally collected data (MKW, IT.NRW), error analysis and instigation of corrections, improvement of communication/notification procedures