Finances

CBA is financed through the two universities and through research grants and contracts. Some of the personnel expenses are covered by undergraduate education at UU, mostly by the PhD students of both universities, most of which teach 15% of their time. (The UU Lecturers' teaching is not included in our finances.)

The summary in Table 1 describes our overall economy for 2006. Since part of our economy is handled at UU and part at SLU, this summary is based on joining the two accounts and clearing internal transactions between the universities. The numbers are rounded to the nearest 1000 SEK. The total turnover is thus 13.8 million SEK for 2006. The total cost was 12.1 million SEK, the surplus was mainly project money that is reserved for the next year. But for the first time in several years also our small operational budget showed a small surplus. The same numbers for income and costs are also given as pie charts in Figure 1. Which projects that are financed by whom can be ascertained in Section 5, where each project is listed.

The main changes in income from last year is that the funding from SLU has increased by 1.3 million SEK, a big part of that increase was a new position as Assistant Professor (forskarassistent) that we were rewarded. There has also been an increase in grants from the Swedish Research Council with about a million SEK, but at the same time a decrease in other grants of about half a million SEK. The percentage of research financed from outside sources is about 33%, which is significantly lower than our ambitions; a few years ago it was above 50% and we are working hard to reach that level again.

The total turnover is about 13% higher than the three previous years. The major costs are for personnel (salaries). The equipment cost is rather low even though we have been reneweing our computer equipment during the year. But those investments are depreciated over five years and also led to decreased maintenance costs.

A big event during last year was that we during October moved from the old wooden building, where we have been located since 1992 into new premises in the same large building as the IT-department of UU. The new premises has less character and charm than the old, but there are also advantages being located closer to other IT-based research groups. The new premises will have a somewhat higher rent but we will also get more funds to cover the rent so the move is not expected to have any major influence on our economy. The move will also make it possible to create a new visualization lab.

Table 1: CBA income and costs for 2006.

Income		Costs
UU	3999	Personnel	6962
SLU	4243	Equipment	184
UU graduate education	793	Operating exp. 4)	2487
SLU undergraduate education	0	Rent	1041
Governmental grants 1)	3171	University overhead	1389
Non-governmental grants 2)	670
Contracts 3)	948
Financial netto	31
Total income	13855	Total cost	12063
1) Sw. National Space Board, The Swedish Research Council, SIDA
2) Research foundations
3) Internal invoices and compensations
4) Including travel and conferences

Figure 1: CBA income (top) and costs (below) for 2006.