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Section III - Supplementary Information

Financial Highlights

The future-oriented financial highlights presented within this Report on Plans and Priorities are intended to serve as a general overview of NSERC's financial position and operations. These financial highlights are prepared on an accrual basis to strengthen accountability and improve transparency and financial management.

The Future-oriented financial statement can be found on NSERC's Web site.


Future-Oriented Condensed Statement of Operations
For the Year (ended March 31)
($ millions)
  $ Change Future-Oriented
2012-13
Future-Oriented
2011-12
Total Expenses -17.7 1,056.7 1,074.4
Total Revenues - - -
Net Cost of Operations -17.7 1,056.7 1,074.4

Expense by Type

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Total expenses are projected to be $1,056.7 million in fiscal year 2012-13. The majority of these expenses are for transfer payments ($1,001 million) in the form of grants and scholarships related to departmental programs. The balance of spending is made up of salaries and employee benefits ($39.3 million) and other operating expenses ($16 million).  The latter two types of expenses are required to support departmental programs and other corporate obligations.

Condensed Statement of Financial Position
For the Year (ended March 31)
($ millions)
  $ Change Future-Oriented
2012-13
Future-Oriented*
2011-12
Total assets - 9.1 -
Total liabilities - 8.3 -
Equity - 0.8 -
Total - 9.1 -

* No Future-Oriented statement of financial position was prepared in the 2011-12 Report on Plans and Priorities.


List of Supplementary Information Tables

All electronic supplementary information tables found in the 2012-13 Report on Plans and Priorities can be found on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's Web site:

  • Details on Transfer Payment Programs (TPPs)
  • Greening Government Operations (GGO)
  • Upcoming Internal Audits and Evaluations over the next three fiscal years

Section IV - Other Items of Interest

Organizational Contact Information

Barney Laciak
Manager, Corporate Planning and Reporting
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
350 Albert Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1H5
Canada
Telephone: 613-996-1079
E-mail: Barney.Laciak@nserc-crsng.gc.ca


Footnotes

1 Programs involving two or more of the federal granting agencies (NSERC, Canadian Institutes of Health Research [CIHR], Canada Foundation for Innovation [CFI], Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC]).

2 Recent analyses and strategies the Science and Technology Innovation Council [STIC] State of the Nation Report [2010], the Council of Canadian Academies [CCA] Innovation and Business Strategy:  Why Canada Falls Short [2009] indicate that Canada needs to better leverage its R&D and accelerating innovation and that public-private R&D partners will help achieve this goal.

3 Main Science and Technology Indicators, OECD  2008

4 While outcomes of the activities supported can affect several of the Government of Canada outcomes such as strong economic growth, income security and employment for Canadians, a clean and healthy environment, healthy Canadians with access to quality health care, and safe and secure communities; "Innovative and Knowledge-based Economy" is most appropriate to link NSERC's resources and results.

5 Observatoire des sciences et des technologies, 2008.

6 Observatoire des sciences et des technologies, 2008.

7 Internal Services include activities and resources that apply across NSERC. These do not include activities and resources provided for specific programs.

8 Observatoire des sciences et des technologies, 2008.

9 Inventions disclosed, inventions protected, new patent applications, patents issued, total patents held, new licenses, total active licenses, royalties from licensing, and total spin-off companies.