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Finance Glossary
This glossary contains terms and abbreviations used in the Office of Financial Services. It also includes explanations of some of the fields in Finance One.
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Glossary - I
- IEC
- Institute of Early Childhood, one of the schools.
- In contract
- Goods or services that are recorded on schedules prepared by State or Commonwealth Governments. Also, any contracts, agreements or list of preferred suppliers deemed as such by the Manager, Purchasing Services.
- Interdisciplinary Centres
- There are two recognised interdisciplinary centres in the University, both using a covering title, which operate as totally independent Schools. Both the Graduate School of the Environment and the Graduate School of Management are interdisciplinary centres.
- Inv.for BU Cert. (Finance One)
- Field on requisition screen. Positive Certification required on the invoice before payment will be approved.
- ISBN
- International Standard Book Numbers - Unique worldwide identifier for all published books. Macquarie University is an agent for the National Library of Australia. ISBNs are allocated by the Publications Unit.
- ISSN
- International Standard Serial Numbers - Unique worldwide identifier for all published serials. Macquarie University is an agent for the National Library of Australia. ISSNs are allocated by the Publications Unit.

