"When the 200 million kroner budget surplus in AU’s 2016 financial statement was announced earlier this month, many of you probably wondered why we have been asked to make cost reductions in the administration and elsewhere at the university in recent years? In this month’s blog, I would like to provide a more detailed interpretation of the results of the figures in the accounts, and explain why we in the administration still need to maintain the course we set last summer." says university director Arnold Boon on his blog.