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Sidman, Bernard; Linstone, Robert T. – 1980
This guide to zero base budgeting (ZBB) offers information intended to be useful to those implementing this system in schools. Beginning with an explanation of zero base budgeting, the paper then enumerates the advantages of such a system. Zero base budgeting design is then explained as well as the assumptions that underlie the system. Suggested…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Expenditures, Money Management, Program Budgeting
Rooney, Patrick M.; Borden, Victor M. H.; Thomas, Timothy J. – 1998
A program cost study was conducted at a large midwestern university to determine department-level expenses and revenues associated with the mission-critical activities of instruction, research, and service. The study (or program) is based on a model for allocating costs, called responsibility centered management, that has been used for nearly a…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administration, Budgeting, Costs
Fox, Dallas R.; And Others – 1981
The institutional programmatic and workload factors that have influential effects on the costs of administering the student financial aid (SFA) service were studied, based on a survey of 51 public universities. Thirty-two of the sample were chosen due to their similarities with the University of Florida, and the remaining were members of the…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, Cost Estimates, Expenditures
Pettit, Joseph – 1978
Recent efforts at Georgetown University to formulate financial models to assist in staffing and allocation decisions are described. The analysis considers a departmental model that has been developed, a program model that is being designed, and the potential uses and misuses of the models. Both models use historical data and do not attempt to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cost Effectiveness, Departments, Educational Finance
Caldwell, Patricia; Scopinich, June – 1993
Materials from Southwestern College, the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges, and the California Research Bureau (CRB) are presented to help community college practitioners calculate curricular costs. First, a set of charts and forms from Southwestern College include the college's definition of curriculum efficiency,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Curriculum, College Programs, Community Colleges
Anderes, Thomas – 1995
This plan for outcome-based budgeting (OBB) is the result of growing demands for increased fiscal accountability, measurable outcomes, strengthened assessment processes, and more meaningful performance indicators as mandated by many State and Federal legislators. OBB focuses on linking funding with outputs and outcomes. Higher education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accounting, Budgeting, College Outcomes Assessment