Business Services
J. Dalzell, Director – Administrative budgeting/tuition projections, reporting and oversight for College financial services and staff; D. Rawlings, A. Fuqua, K. Pound, M. Swanson – Accounting and purchasing for self-supporting service centers, grants & contracts, gifts, ICR and state funds, appointment processing and reconciliation, payroll, & leaves; C. Bushman – Mail, filing, & data processing.
D. Payne, Business Manager I – Human resource policy, grievances, management data reporting, and business applications.
The Business Services’ office serves the Dean’s Office; Academic and Student Affairs; Administrative Services; Advancement; Public Engagement; Research and Advanced Studies; Veterinary Programs in ACES; and the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory providing human resource, accounting, and state budgetary support for these units. Business Services provides oversight and policy development for the financial and human resource activities in the academic departments and the service units. All University, Campus, and agency financial and human resource reporting and auditing is managed in this office. Business services staff work with department business staff and the computing services staff to develop and support complementary business systems to augment Banner in order to maintain or expand tracking and reporting capabilities for agency and/or accreditation reporting.
The financial staff members provide the budgeting, accounting, purchasing, billing, processing, self-supporting service centers, and financial reporting services for all College administrative units and oversight of the FY08 $17.9 million College-wide state budget. This staff oversees the Campus budget allocation process, manages state and indirect cost accounts, College-wide grants, purchasing and processing of day-to-day fiscal operations, prepares budgets and monitors expenditures to prevent cost overruns, provides extensive external reporting to Campus and national agencies, as well as, responding to audits.
The human resource staff members are responsible for processing College-level administrative units and Diagnostic Laboratory personnel appointments for ~110 employees and ~50 students. The College business office staff are the primary College resource for University, state, and federal personnel policies and regulations for the college-level administrative units, the service units (Teaching Hospital and Diagnostic Laboratory) and the academic departments (Pathobiology, Veterinary Biosciences, Veterinary Clinical Medicine); provide guidance on discipline or grievance matters; compose/draft correspondence related to personnel and salary issues, such as CVM policy guidelines, proposals for legal agreements, disciplinary notices, and salary requests to Campus; and oversight for compliance with University policies and regulations.
