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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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| N | 0 | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
Glossary - P
- PAYE tax
- Pay as you earn tax. Income tax This is the tax taken out of the employee's pay by the University each pay period and forwarded to the Australian Tax Office on the employee's behalf.
- Per diem
- Daily allowance which may be paid to staff when they are absent from home, and from the work place, on University business at the discretion of the Head of the financial unit.
- PG1, PG2, PG3
- Postgraduate Code 1, 2 or 3. Used in Divisional Funding Model to indicate postgraduate teaching subjects with least(1), medium(2) and highest(3) cost input required.
- PGRF
- Post-Graduate Research Fund
- PMH
- Personnel Management Handbook, issued by the Personnel Office.
- PMIS
- The Personnel Management Information System used at Macquarie.
- Positive Certification (Finance One)
- See Inv. for BU Cert.
- Processing Group (Finance One)
- The basic grouping of accounts in the chart of accounts for Finance One which separates the recording of the actuals (A processing group) from the budgets (B processing group).
- Procurement
- See Purchasing section
- Purchasing section
- A section of Purchasing Services in the Office of Financial Services. Purchasing can be contacted on x7251 or x7253.