Meeting on university finances January 24

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WMU-AAUP Meeting on University Finances
with WMU President John Dunn and
VP for Business and Finance Jan Van Der Kley

Friday, January 24, 2014, at 2:30 p.m.
Room 204 Bernhard Center
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A special Association Council meeting is scheduled for Friday, January 24, at 2:30 p.m., in room 204 of the Bernhard Center, to discuss university finances with WMU President John Dunn and VP for Business and Finance Jan Van Der Kley.

All Association Council representatives are encouraged to attend and to invite other interested colleagues. Please bring your questions for President Dunn and Vice President Van Der Kley, or just come to listen.

Colleagues interested in university finances are directed to check with their department’s Association Council representative(s) to the WMU-AAUP (pdf list of reps at the link) for information about the WMU audited financial statement for 2012-13. You may also want to view the WMU university budget and financial planning documents linked below in advance of the meeting:

See the glossary of terms at this link for information about the line-item labels on WMU financial documents.

Hope to see you there on Friday!

Other relevant reading material is available at the following links:

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)

GuideStar pages (financial and other information about nonprofit organization):

Information on how to read financial statements:

Government Accounting Standards Board documents:

GASB does not allow links to individual pronouncements, so click on this link to the GASB Pronouncements page and scroll down to the links to Statements 4, 61, 63, and 65 to review the accounting standards followed by WMU in the 2012-13 financial statement attached to this email.

On university budgets and athletics: