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BUFDG Tax Conference 2025

The only place to be in June if you work in tax, payroll or global mobility...

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Scottish Universities Finance Conference

14 May

Join us for the Scottish Universities Finance Conference at the University of Strathclyde - a full day event with a number of plenary sessions for all and a choice of additional breakout sessions. This free event is for any finance and procurement staff (across all levels) within any Scottish universities. Booking closes on 1 May!

Finance and other systems used in universities

We've gathered information from our members about which financial and other systems they use, and captured the finance system for 123 universities/higher education providers, plus the systems/software used for payroll, expenses, CT returns, VAT returns, and global mobility for many of them.

 

News

BUFDG Digest 23 April

23/04/2025

Joni Rhodes

New Commission on Students in Higher Education, OfS updates, preparing for SORP regional workshops announced, updates from the Banking Engagement Forum, Tax Conference CPD certification, purchase order centralisation and more...

Preparing for the FEHE SORP - webinar and regional workshops...

15/04/2025

Joni Rhodes

Summer webinar and regional workshops announced to support preparations for the FEHE SORP

BUFDG Digest 9 April 2025

09/04/2025

Matt Sisson

In this Digest we cover the forthcoming Scottish Universities Finance Conference, the recent education select committe hearing on financial sustainability of universities, and a large number of updates following both the start of the new tax year, and the chancellor's Spring Statement. We have also published three new BUFDG resources. 

All news

BUFDG E-learning

Did you know? BUFDG has an extensive suite of over 50 CPD-certified e-learning modules, covering a huge range of HE finance topics. These are free to access with your BUFDG website account.

Upcoming Events

UHR's Inclusive Futures: Reimagining the HE workforce - webi...

01/05/2025

Online via MS Teams, 12noon - 12.45pm

This series of six webinars showcases brilliant work going on in the HE sector to recruit, develop, retain and promote a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Vialto/BUFDG Global Mobility in-person roundtable - London

01/05/2025

3 More London Riverside, 4th Floor, London, SE1 2AQ

Vialto will once again be running in-person Global Mobility roundtables on behalf of BUFDG. Events will take place in Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and London.

Introduction to TRAC

06/05/2025

Online – Three weeks from Tuesday 6th May. Self-directed online learning supplemented with live-online Zoom workshops on 6th, 9th, 16th and 23rd May

This virtual course provides an introduction to the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC). It looks at the TRAC requirements, what universities need to do to comply with them and how they can go about doing it.

 

VAT Education Exemption in EU Member States

KPMG has provided an overview for BUFDG members of the ability for UK universities to qualify for the education exemption in certain EU countries.

Download the document

2024 Financial Statements webinar resources

The 2024 Financial Statements webinars were held in May 2024. The slides and recording are now available for members to access.

Access the recording and slides

Subsidiary Companies

Our Subsidiary Companies web page covers all things Subsidiaries. It includes our four short explainer videos, recent webinars, as well as links to other useful resources

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