8560.0 - Museums, Australia, 2003-04  
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Admissions income


This item includes the amount received from fees charged for admissions to museums/galleries. It excludes amounts received where admission is by donation only.


Annual allocations from related private sector organisations


This refers to monies received from a parent body in the private sector, such as a hospital or financial institution, to fund the operation of a museum/gallery.


Bequests


These are legal dispositions from deceased estates which represent either personal property or monetary amounts.


Conservation expenses of museum objects/artworks


This item includes expenses incurred in the treatment, preservation, preventative conservation and restoration of artworks and museum objects, as well as conservation assessment and condition report expenses.


Conservators


These are persons primarily responsible for the treatment, preservation, preventative conservation and restoration of artworks and museum objects.


Curators


These are persons primarily responsible for the research, development, promotion and management of museum/gallery collections.


Depreciation and amortisation


This item refers to regularly recurring financial charges made in the accounts to reflect that part of the value of the asset which may be regarded as having been used up in producing revenue in a particular accounting period. Generally, depreciation refers to physical (tangible) non-current assets and amortisation to intangible non-current assets.


Donations


This item represents voluntary transfers of cash, goods or other services which do not normally form part of commercial operations.


Employer contributions to superannuation funds


This item represents the cost of the employer's contributions during the reference period, made on behalf of employees, including salary sacrificed amounts.


Employment at end June


This item represents all working proprietors and partners and employees on the payroll of museum/gallery organisations during the last pay period ending in June 2004. Employees absent on paid or prepaid leave are included. Non-salaried directors, self-employed persons such as consultants and contractors, persons paid by commission only and volunteers are excluded.


Exhibition/display development costs


This item represents expenses relating to the development of permanent and temporary displays, including exhibition programs, labelling, documentation and fees paid to consultants for exhibition development.


Financial sponsorships


This item refers to income received from organisations involved in the public support and/or promotion of museums/galleries. Sponsorships are transactions which result in advertising and/or other benefits to the sponsoring business.


Free admissions


This item refers to admissions to museums/galleries which were provided free of charge to the general public.


Fringe benefits tax


Fringe benefits tax is payable by employers when certain benefits in excess of normal wages or salaries (e.g. free or discounted goods or services) are received by their employees (or associates of employees) in connection with their employment.


Full-time employees


This item refers to persons on the payroll of museum/gallery organisations during the last pay period ending in June 2004 who normally work 35 or more hours per week.


Fundraising income


This item refers to income from non-government organisations such as corporations, philanthropic trusts and 'friends' groups.


Government funding


This item refers to project or program payments made by federal, state/territory and local governments in the form of operational funds for ongoing operations and capital funds to purchase equipment or property. This item includes grants from government for research and other purposes.


In-kind sponsorships


This item represents non-monetary sponsorship which is valued in the statement of financial performance of the museum/gallery organisation.


Insurance premiums


These are expenses incurred by an organisation in respect of different types of insurance policies but excluding workers’ compensation and compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance.


Labour costs


These include staff related costs such as wages and salaries (including monies paid directly to freelancers via the payroll), fringe benefits tax and payroll tax, employer contributions to superannuation funds, workers’ compensation premiums, and provision expenses for employee entitlements.


Managers, administrators and clerical support workers


This item includes museum or gallery directors and other persons mainly engaged in the administration of the major functions of museums or galleries. It excludes collection managers.


Museum/gallery locations at end June


This item refers to the number of physical locations where museum/gallery collections were located at 30 June 2004.


Museum objects/artworks at end June


This item refers to the number of museum objects/artworks in the collection of a museum/gallery, including museum objects/artworks held in storage or temporarily on tour or on loan to other museums/galleries. These are tangible objects relating to natural history, important historical events and everyday lives, such as specimens, manuscripts, machinery and equipment. Museum objects also include original objects which document or record traditions, customs and habits, such as photographs, films, tape recordings and digital images.


Museum or gallery attendants


This item includes persons who work mainly as museum or gallery guides or as front-of-house attendants.


Other purchases


This item comprises non-capitalised purchases, including goods for resale. It excludes purchases of museum objects/artworks.


Paid admissions


This item refers to the number of people who paid an admission fee to a museum/gallery.


Part-time employees


This item refers to persons on the payroll of museum/gallery organisations during the last pay period ending in June 2004 who normally work less than 35 hours per week.


Payroll tax


Payroll tax is a tax levied by state and territory governments upon the amount of wages and salaries paid by an organisation.


Purchases of museum objects/artworks


This item represents current and/or capital expenditure on the purchase of museum objects/artworks.


Sales of goods


This item refers to revenue received from the sales of goods in the ordinary course of museum/gallery operations, and includes income from merchandising activities. It excludes the sale of fixed tangible assets.


Security officers


This item refers to those persons mainly engaged in patrolling and guarding museum/gallery premises for the purpose of preventing damage or theft.


Special exhibitions


These are temporary exhibitions generally exhibited for less than three months and include special exhibitions curated/developed in-house, as well as touring or imported exhibitions.


Subscription and membership income


This is the revenue received for membership and for paid subscriptions to journals or papers.


Volunteer hours


This item refers to the total number of hours worked by volunteers during the month of June 2004.


Volunteers during the month of June


This item refers to the number of volunteers who worked for museum/gallery organisations during the month of June 2004. Volunteers provide assistance in the form of time, labour and/or skills, and receive no payment, either monetary or in-kind, in return. Included in this item are volunteer members of boards of management, fundraising committees and auxilliaries.


Wages and salaries


This item refers to the gross wages and salaries (including capitalised wages and salaries) of all employees of the organisation. The item includes severance, termination and redundancy payments, salaries and fees of directors and executives, retainers and commissions of persons who received a retainer, bonuses, and annual and other types of leave. Provision expenses for employee entitlements (e.g. provisions for annual leave and leave bonus, long service leave, sick leave, and severance, termination and redundancy payments) are also included. Payments related to salary sacrifice and payments to self-employed persons such as consultants, contractors and persons paid solely by commission without a retainer are excluded.


Web presence


This refers to an organisation having a web site, home page or a presence on another entity's web site. A web site or home page is an electronic document that is accessed via a unique address on the World Wide Web. The document provides information in a textual, geographical or multimedia format.


Workers' compensation costs


Workers’ compensation is a compulsory insurance cover taken out by all employers, except for self-insured workers, according to legislative schemes to cover employees suffering injury or disease in the course of, or arising out of, employment.


Working proprietors and partners of unincorporated businesses


A working proprietor operates his or her own business (a sole proprietorship), while a working partner, along with one or more other partners, operates a partnership. Working proprietors and working partners are the owners of their business and as such, they are not considered to be employees of that business.


Written collection management policy


This is a written document which outlines how the museum/gallery will manage and care for its collection(s) and any new objects it will acquire.


Written disaster
preparedness plan


This is a written documentt which outlines the steps the organisation will take in respect of its collection(s) in the event of a disaster occurring.