Planning & Budgeting

Business Officer Articles

• Proving That Your Outputs Count (February 2008) Chief Business officers are key leaders in the accreditation process, bringing budgetary discipline to mission-critical metrics.
• A Realistic Approach to Management (December 2007) What are the key financial, human resources, and institutional factors that keep colleges and universities viable? Read on.
• Growth Spurt (November 2007) To celebrate its centennial, Abilene Christian University set an ambitious endowment goal - and exceeded it.
• The Holistic Endowment (October 2007) Managing your institution's endowment as a balance sheet can open doors to a full set of strategic choices, tools and investment solutions-and to better risk management. An interview with Leo Tilman, chief institutional strategist at Bear Stearns, sheds light on ways that higher education institutions might apply this concept.

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Professional Development

Future Meetings:

• Integrated Planning and Budgeting May 18 - 20, 2008: Boston, Mass.

ON-DEMAND Programs:

• Essentials of College and University Budgeting covers the budget environment in higher education

Resources

NACUBO's Bookstore has many publications covering Planning & Budgeting and Accounting

Linking Planning and Decision Making -- Here's a simple test to determine if your institution's planning and action are successfully linked: Ask yourself if each element of the budget can be shown to make sense in the context of the strategic direction of the university. A plan presents the framework that makes sense of the choices, Nathan Dickmeyer writes in NACUBO's newest book, "The Strategic Attitude". 

Planning & Budgeting Listserv

Send an email to join-budgeting_issues@maillist.nacubo.org.  This forum provides an opportunity for those with budget responsibilities to ask questions and share best practices within the higher education community.

Nacubo contact, Bryan Dickson, program analyst