Finances: An important point to take into account when planning an event

Financial Plan

All income and expenses for a given event need to be processed as part of the university budget. The Division of Financial Affairs is happy to advise you on all relevant financial matters

Please make sure to involve Financial Affairs early in the planning process. Once you submit a draft of the event programme as well as a financial plan to the Division of Financial Affairs, a project account can be set up for you.

The financial plan (download after login) should include all income and expenses, where income should at least cover the event’s expenses. You can use the plan to keep track of the finances and to better plan the event.

For your information: In order to provide you with the best possible project overview, some items that do not involve (rental) fees are intentionally included in the financial plan. Because of the wide variety of event types, the list of items is not exhaustive.

Event and Conference Management would be happy to help you estimate your event’s expenses and to create a financial plan.

Account details

On 1 February 2014, the University of Konstanz adopted the European standard Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) method of transferring funds. Please make sure to always include the IBAN and BIC information with payments (i.e. for travel expenses, guest lectures, reimbursements)

University of Konstanz account details:

BW-Bank Konstanz
IBAN: DE92 6005 0101 7486 5012 74
BIC/SWIFT: SOLA DE ST

Purpose: [Event name]

Credit card payments

In principle, event registration fees can be paid online via credit card. In such cases, however, the payee (i.e. either you or the university) will not receive the full amount transferred, since a credit card fee of approximately 4.5 % will be deducted from the payment. Please take this reduction in earnings into account when calculating the participation fees. You might want to know: Bank transfers within Europe are free of charge.

Please contact the Universitätskasse (university cashier’s office) if you have additional questions about payment methods.

Contracts

  • Contracts for goods and services paid for by university budget and third-party funds can only be concluded by the university administration (Financial Affairs/University Purchasing).
  • Employment contract applications submitted by you have to be processed by the Human Resources Division. Human Resources then concludes the employment contract with the prospective employee. Please be advised: "Werkverträge" (contracts for specific deliverables) and all other kinds of contracts are the responsibility of the Financial Affairs Division!
  • Contracts with sponsors must be signed by Financial Affairs. You are welcome to use our sponsorship contract template. If you need to make substantial changes to the template, make sure to have them checked. Please submit two copies of the contract, both signed by the sponsor, to the Division of Financial Affairs (the sponsor will receive a signed copy for his/her records).
  • If you wish to hire musicians for your event, you must draw up a guest performance contract that sets out the overall hiring conditions. Make sure to register your music event with GEMA if necessary.