Ohio Wesleyan University has responded to the challenge of costing in colleges and universities by implementing a computer-based costing system, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970. This document describes the Ohio Wesleyan system that provides direct instructional cost per student enrolled for each individual course section, as…

This document was prepared in response to the 1973 Minnesota legislature request to "prepare a detailed plan for a fiscal accounting and reporting system of program expenditures for elementary, secondary, and area vocational schools." The plan addresses the organizational and procedural changes, financial resources, and time necessary to…

This business management manual discusses school accounting and reporting principles; in particular, financial management, computerization, and records retention techniques. First is described the basic accounting principles, plant funds, endowment funds, operational funds, chart of accounts, and financial states of the school's annual financial…

This booklet describes the Daily Production Reports subsystem of the School Food Management System, a computer program package developed as one part of a family of educational management systems. The Daily Production Reports system produces two major types of reports on a daily basis. Business Analysis Reports display all food service costs, as…

This booklet describes the Financial Projection Program, a computer program package developed as one part of a family of educational management systems. The program projects personnel by type, forecasts salaries, applies state funding formulas, and projects revenues, expenditures, and related financial data. Its purpose is to produce a projected…

This paper reviews a financial management system developed to process accounts payable, general ledger, and budgeting for a large private school system. Tuition billing procedures as well as fund raising applications are also discussed and outlined. Strategies of reporting and systems are developed on the basis of fund accounting procedures. All…

The School Planning, Evaluation, and Communication System (SPECS) is an overall design for districtwide program assessment and development. It is both a way of interrelating planning and evaluation of individual programs and a way of comparing the outcomes of all district programs with the district's community-defined educational goals. Component…

This publication describes the development and implementation of a school district financial accounting system based on the concepts and guidelines of the National Center for Education Statistics Handbook II, Revised. The system described was designed by school district personnel to utilize computer equipment and to meet the accounting and…

A condensation of ideas generated during the 1982 Conference on More with Less, this guide presents methods of saving money, increasing student participation, and influencing decision-makers to maintain school meal programs in the face of reduced federal support. For each topic, specific suggestions, a brief case study, and addresses of resource…

Cuyahoga Community College's three-phase Institutional Development Program (IDP) was established in January, 1975, to provide systematic and uniform college-wide planning and management procedures. This report first discusses the social forces which led the college to undertake the IDP; identifies the long-range planning, governance, and…