• BOR/ABAC Policy Manual



• Sec. 1 Officers of the Board
• Sec. 2 Inst. Governance
• Sec. 3 Academic Affairs
• Sec. 4 Student Affairs
• Sec. 5 Public Service
• Sec. 6 Research
• Sec. 7 Finance and Business
• Sec. 8 Personnel
• Sec. 9 Facilities
• Sec. 10 Information, Records, and Publications
• Sec. 11 Miscellaneous
• Sec. 12 Amendments

• ABAC Statutes

• Additional USG Resources



• Additional ABAC Resources

BOR/ABAC Policy Manual

Section 7.0: Finance and Business

Introduction

Section 7.0, Finance and Business, covers all aspects of finance and business activities at all University System of Georgia (USG institutions, including the general policy, the USG budget, tuition and fees, private donations to the USG and its institutions, fund management, travel, purchasing, insurance, contracts, auditing, miscellaneous, information security policy, the Board of Regents’ Retiree Health Benefit Fund investment policy, and identity theft.

Table of Contents

• 7.1 General Policy
  • 7.1.1 Allocation of Funds
  • 7.1.2 Accounting and Reporting
• 7.2 USG Budget
  • 7.2.1 Educational and General Revenues and Expenditures
  • 7.2.2 Auxiliary Enterprises Revenues and Expenditures
    • 7.2.2.1 ABAC Auxiliary Services
  • 7.2.3 Operating Budgets
  • 7.2.4 Budget Amendments
  • 7.2.5 Liability for Expenditure of Budgets
  • 7.2.6 ABAC Budgets
• 7.3 Tuition and Fees
  • 7.3.1 Tuition
  • 7.3.2 Student Fees and Special Charges
    • ABAC 7.3.2.1 Student Fees
  • 7.3.3 Tuition and Fee Payment and Deferral
  • 7.3.4 Out-of-State Tuition Waivers and Waivers of Mandatory Fees
  • 7.3.5 Refunds
  • ABAC 7.3.6 Student Accounts
• 7.4 Private Donations to the USG and Its Institutions
• ABAC 7.4.1 Fundraising and Solicitations
• 7.5 Fund Management
  • 7.5.1 Banking
  • 7.5.2 Investments
  • 7.5.3 Loan Funds for Matching Purposes
  • 7.5.4 Sale of Securities
  • 7.5.5 Georgia Eminent Scholars Endowment Trust Fund
  • 7.5.6 ABAC Cash Receipts
    
• 7.6 Travel
  • ABAC 7.6.1 Expenditure of Funds
• 7.7 Purchasing
  • 7.7.1 General Policy
  • 7.7.2 Employee Purchasing
• 7.8 Insurance
  • 7.8.1 Property Insurance
  • 7.8.2 Liability Insurance
  • 7.8.3 Fidelity Bond
• 7.9 Contracts
  • 7.9.1 Contracting Authority
  • 7.9.2 Construction Contracts
  • 7.9.3 Contracts with Veterans Administration
• 7.10 Auditing
  • 7.10.1 State Auditing
  • 7.10.2 Internal Audits
• 7.11 Miscellaneous
  • 7.11.1 Sales of Institutional Products
  • 7.11.2 Business Enterprises
  • 7.11.3 Use of Institution Names
  • 7.11.4 Motor Vehicles
  • 7.11.5 Farming Operations
  • 7.11.6 Faculty Housing
  • 7.11.7 Student Housing
  • 7.11.8 Trademarks
  • 7.11.9 Home or Off-Campus Use of Equipment for Business Purposes
• 7.12 Information Security Policy
  • 7.12.1 General Policy
  • 7.12.2 System-Level Activities
  • 7.12.3 Institutional Responsibilities
  • 7.12.4 Specific Policies and Standards
  • ABAC 7.12.5  Information Technology
    • ABAC 7.12.5.1 Protection and Security of Records
    • ABAC 7.12.5.2 Acceptable Use of  IT Resources
    • ABAC 7.12.5.3 Institutional Use of E-mail
      
    • ABAC 7.12.5.4 Employee Responsibility for IT Security
    • ABAC 7.12.5.5 Hardware and Software Supported by OITS
    • ABAC 7.12.5.6 Telecommunications