This student worktext is designed for use by those participating in an advanced child care administration course teaching microcomputer utilization for child care administrators. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: the role of microcomputers in administration of child care programs, development of…

This document contains employment-readiness tests for five office occupations: general office clerk, clerk typist, stenographer, accounting clerk, and word processing operator. Each test has two sections: an objective section to measure the student's attitudes and knowledge and a performance section to measure the appropriate skills. The objective…

This guide gives information on the skills and knowledge that students should acquire in a secondary-level business education program. Section 1 introduces the competency-based curriculum and discusses curriculum delivery systems, the role of the teacher in curriculum development, and options for program development. Goals, competencies, and…

The state-of-the-art of financial analysis for academic units within institutions of higher education is evaluated with attention directed to: how the cost of an academic unit is determined, how revenue is identified with academic units, how costs are analyzed, how revenues and expenditures are projected, and how the financial efficiency of an…

Financial planning and management responsibilities of college governing boards are examined. External factors and the institution's condition and direction of movement are addressed, along with policies concerning financial resources (e.g., tuition, financial aid, investments, and educational and auxiliary sales and services). Also considered are:…

This booklet is intended to help mainstreamed mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, or learning disabled high school students acquire a basic understanding of the responsibilities and working conditions of accounting clerks and bookkeepers and to practice basic math skills necessary in the occupation. The first section provides a brief…

The adequacy of the Department of Education's automated information system for the Guaranteed Student Loan Program was assessed. The review conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office focused on the department's efforts and plans to correct system deficiencies, the reasonableness and propriety of major system costs incurred, and the…

This instructional unit on farm recordkeeping is intended as a guide for use by teachers in planning and conducting young farmer and/or adult education classes. The unit consists of thirteen problems on the following topics: planning for farm recordkeeping, recording inventories, recording depreciable items, recording farm expenses, recording cash…

This document, one of eight in a multi-cultural competency-based vocational/technical curricula series, is on clerical occupations. This program is designed to run 36 weeks and cover 10 instructional areas: beginning typing, typing I, typing II, duplicating, receptionist activities, general office procedures, operation of electronic calculator,…

Federal research grant activities at the University of Rochester for the year ending June 30, 1977, during which the university received $38.6 million in grants and contracts, are reviewed. The report includes: (1) a review of the university's system for administering and accounting for these funds; (2) an analysis of selected major grants awarded…

Ways in which the external financial disclosures by universities may evaluate institutional economic viability are demonstrated. It is argued that the evaluation should take into account the effect of inflation and activity level. The evaluation model requires several years' information about revenues (general operating fund), the impact of…

The relative achievement and appeal effectiveness of a multimedia nontraditional course with open learning adult learners and on-campus students were examined in this study of a University of Mid-America course. Focus was on (1) the achievement and appeal effects, with on-campus students employing or omitting the television component in the…

This data providers' guide, the first volume of the revised "Higher Education Finance Manual," comprehensively describes national financial reporting standards, including those prescribed for the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) reports, and includes the information needed to comply with those standards. General…

The curriculum guide presents a two-year, in-school program for juniors and seniors designed to prepare students for positions in the accounting field. Instruction in this program includes all subjects related to the accounting field: accounting, office machines, office processing data, typewriting, economics, business law, and business…

This manual is designed to provide guidelines for the analysis of the costs of operating day care centers and not day care homes. Day care is defined as a broad term applied to a variety of programs that shelter preschool and school age children on something less than a 24-hour basis. The guidelines set forth by this manual aim to permit the…