The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction
    ICMI
    Bulletin No. 46
    June 1999

    ICMI Accounts 1998: 1 January - 31 December

     

     

     

    Swiss Franc Account:
    Swiss Franc Account:
    Income: Expenditure
    balance 1997 161.879,08
    IMU (Schedule A: Administration) 11.000,00
    IMU (Schedule B: Scientific Activities) 22.000,00
    interest 15,44
    total 194.894,52     		ICMI Study on History, subsidy for participants' travels 6.000,00
    EC meeting in Luminy, President’s and members' expenses 3.550,01
    transfer charges 38,63
    ICMI balance 1998 185.305,88
    total 194.894,52
     
    Den Danske Bank exchange rate, ult. 1998: 1 CHF = 0,73 US$

     

     

     

    Danish Kroner Account:
    Danish Kroner Account:
    Income: Expenditure
    ICMI balance 1997 44.206,03
    return payment of loan from ICME-8 22.322,00
    transfer from USD account (corresponding to USD 3.189,27) 20.508,00
    total 87.036,03     		EC meeting in Saint Marcellin, members' accommodation and local expenses 6.067,80
    EC meeting in Saint Marcellin, Secretary’s travel expenses 2.775,00
    ICMI Study on History, Luminy, IPC members' accommodation etc. 8.815,04
    ICMI Study on History, Luminy, Secretary’s travel expenses 4.880,68
    ICMI Study on Univ. Maths., Singapore, Secretary’s expenses1) 3.241,00
    ICM-98, Secretary’s expenses 7.444,09
    ICM-98, EC members' local expenses 4.183,48
    typing of Bulletin 44 & 45 2.805,00
    Transition meeting in Copenhagen of outgoing and incoming Secretaries 2) 4.821,66
    presents to meeting hosts 1.202,95
    credit card charge 150,00
    transfer charges 70,00
    ICMI Balance 1998 40.579,33
    total 87.036,03
     
    Den Danske Bank exchange rate, ult. 1998: 1 DKR = 0,16 US$

     

     

     

    Sterling Account:
    Sterling Account:
    Income: Expenditure
    balance 1997 14.773,13
    interest 713,46
    total 15.486,59     		ICMI balance 1998 15.486,59
    total 15.486,59
     
    Den Danske Bank exchange rate, ult. 1998: 1 GBP = 1,66 US$

     

     

     

    US$ Account:
    US$ Account:
    Income: Expenditure
    ICMI balance3) 1997 9.187,31

    Donation to ICMI from the Korean National Sub-Commission4) 1.000,00
    Solidarity Fund balance3) 1997 35.514,71
    Solidarity Fund interest 1.296,07
    Contribution to Solidarity Fund, from ICME-8 surplus (via DKR account)5) 3.189,27
    Contribution to the Solidarity Fund, by Joel Schneider, New York 92,46
    total 50.279,82     		EC meeting in Saint Marcellin, President’s expenses 530,00
    EC meeting in Saint Marcellin, member’s expenses 1.280,88
    ICMI Study on History, Luminy, IPC member’s expenses 768,65
    ICMI Study on Univ. Maths, member’s expenses 2.400,70
    ICM-98, President’s expenses 1.900,00
    transfer to DKR account (corresponding to DKR. 20.508) 3.189,27
    transfer charges 45,19
    Solidarity Fund balance 1998 40.092,51
    ICMI balance 1998 72,62
    (account balance 40.165,13)
    total 50.279,82

     

     

     

     

     

    Notes:

    1. The Secretary’s actual expenses were considerably higher but were reduced by a grant from conference organisers in Singapore for which the EC is very grateful.
    2. In order to pave the way for a smooth transition from the 1995-1998 to the 1999-2002 EC, the outgoing and the incoming Secretaries had a four day working meeting in Copenhagen in November 1998.
    3. As a consequence of the ICMI General Assembly and Executive Committee meetings held in Québec, August 1992, it was decided to establish an ICMI Solidarity Fund based on private contributions. The Solidarity Fund was mounted to assist mathematics education and mathematics educators in less affluent countries. Its money can only be spent (by a committee chaired by Professor Jean-Pierre Kahane) to serve such purposes and is therefore not part of ICMI’s general resources. However, the appearance of the Solidarity Fund on the ICMI accounts for 1997 is due to the wish to keep ICMI’s number of different bank accounts low. The accounts exhibit the ICMI balances and the Solidarity Fund balances separately. As of 1996 the Solidarity Fund balances were all concentrated in the US Dollar Account.
    4. This donation was given to ICMI after the conference ICMI-EARCOME-1, 17-21 August 1998.
    5. This contribution to the Solidarity Fund stems from the residue of the Solidarity Tax Grants of ICME-8, Sevilla (Spain), 1996, transferred to ICMI by the congress organisers. The sum was transferred to the DKR account but placed on the USD account (cf. 2.) by means of an internal transfer between accounts.
    6. In addition to the amounts displayed directly in the accounts, considerable extra sums should appear but do not and cannot. In 1995 Roskilde University (the Secretary’s home institution) has contributed a substantial support to ICMI’s work (e.g. telephone and fax, e-mail facilities, postage, all the printing and distribution costs of the Bulletin, plus secretarial help of various sorts). It is estimated that the total contribution of Roskilde University is equivalent about US$ 5.000. The ICMI Executive Committee expresses its gratitude for this generous support.

    The Executive Committee’s thanks also go to the institutions of its other members. These institutions, too, have given invisible support to ICMI’s work in a variety of ways. For instance, in many cases these institutions have paid travel and other expenses related to participation in EC meetings and so forth.

     

    Mogens Niss, Secretary, 14 January 1999

    Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark