Conference: costing and pricing for higher education
Balancing the financial, environmental and corporate social responsibility issues
This one day conference will cover developments affecting management accounting within higher education institutions in the UK. The programme covers the latest reports and guidance issued on financial and environmental sustainability.
Who will benefit
Those interested in attending will include:
- Directors of Finance
- Financial Controllers
- TRAC Managers
- Costing and Pricing Managers
- Internal Audit Managers
- Directors of Research and Commercial Development,
- School and Departmental Finance and Research Managers
- lay members of university/college councils
- PVCs for Research and Learning and Teaching
- Directors of Planning and Strategic Development
- Management Accountants
- Academics on strategy/planning and research committees
What you can gain
Topics will include:
- Financial Sustainability
- The CIMA Strategic Scorecard
- Estates Management Statistics Report
- Carbon reduction commitment
- Corporate social responsibility
- Lean reporting and management
- Cost reduction in universities
Speaker
- John Newton, Conference chair
- KEYNOTE - Steve Egan, Deputy Chief Executive, HEFCE and Member of CIMA Research Board
- Jim Port, Director, J M Consulting Ltd
- Steve Yorkstone, Change Consultant, Lean Unit, University of St Andrews
- Adam King, EMS Service Manager, Estates Management Statistics Project
- Speakers also invited from: KPMG, FSSG, TRAC and CIMA along with Finance Directors from leading HEIs
Programme outline
9.00am Registration (tea and coffee)
9.30am Chair’s introduction – John Newton, Assistant Director (Costing, Pricing, Special Projects), Cardiff University
9.45am Keynote - Steve Egan, Deputy Chief Executive, HEFCE
10.30 am Financial Sustainability - Jim Port, HEFCE
11.15am Tea and coffee
11.30am CIMA Strategic Scorecard and case study - CIMA (TBC)
12.00pm Cost reduction in universities - KPMG (TBC)
12.45pm Lunch
2.00pm Lean practices in universities and case study - Steve Yorkstone, J M Consulting and Lean Unit, University of St. Andrews
2.45pm Estates Management Statistics Project - Adam King, EMS Service Manager, Estates Management Statistics Project
3.30pm Tea
3.45pm Q & A session
4.30pm Conference close