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 appointments are not included in our finances.)

The summary in Table 1 describes our overall economy for 2008. 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 17 million SEK for 2008, up marginally from 16.6 million SEK for 2007. The total cost was 17.3 million SEK so we had a small deficit this year which was as expected since the last couple of years have generated surplus and we have expanded our activities. Our small operational budget also showed a small surplus which made it possible for us to pay back the last part of the debt we generated during the difficult early years of this millennium.

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 UU has decreased by a million SEK mainly due to the moratorium in the support for an assistant researcher applied every fifth year. SLU has also decreased by 0.25 million SEK. Fortunately, this has been more than compensated for by an increase in external grants by 1.7 million SEK. The major costs are for personnel (salaries). The equipment cost is rather low even though we need and have good computer workstations; they are not very expensive these days. And we do not need much other equipment. In fact, almost all images we work with come from co-operation partners.

In our Visualization studio, 3DIS4U, 3D Image Studio for Uppsala, we can project stereo images and thus visualize results from our research or from scientific computations at UPPMAX (Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science), which we are cooperating with in running the studio. The studio is partially funded though a special grant from UU. We hope to be able to develop the studio and add new visualization facilities over the next several years making it an important asset for students and researchers at our host universities.

Table 1: CBA income and costs for 2008.

Income		Costs
UU	3923	Personnel	10093
SLU	4846	Equipment	372
UU rent compensation	1120	Operating exp. 4)	3428
Governmental grants 1)	4374	Rent	1311
Non-governmental grants 2)	2169	University overhead	2100
Contracts 3)	371
Financial netto	179
Total income	16982	Total cost	17304
1) The Swedish Research Council, SIDA
2) Research foundations, EU
3) Internal invoices and compensations
4) Including travel and conferences

Figure 1: CBA income (top) and costs (below) for 2008.