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OPERATIONS
 he Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for the Controller's Office and the Contract Services & Real Estate Office. Reporting to the Vice President for Administration and Finance of the University, these departments are responsible for financial management and planning,
controlling the proper use of funds in accordance with Federal, State, Regents, and
University policy and procedure, preparing financial reports, and negotiating financial
contracts relating to the sale of revenue bonds and investment terms.
Within the
controller's unit, Financial Support Services maintains and operates the University's
financial system, maintains adequate internal control over financial transactions,
coordinates and reports the financial activities of the auxiliary enterprises,
service units, and the Regents' Fund, and provides the liaison between the University
and its external auditors, the Office of State Finance, and the Oklahoma State Regents
for Higher Education.
MISSION STATEMENT
The primary mission of the Office of the CFO and the departments therein is to
serve and support the academic, research, and public service functions of the University
and the various other support functions (e.g., academic support, student services,
institutional support, and physical plant operations) of the University. In
providing this support, we must:
- provide high-quality responsive support
services and communications in a courteous, cheerful, and friendly manner to
all of our faculty, staff and student customers;
- make each visit to our offices
by our faculty, staff, and student customers a hassle-free experience; and
- find
better and more efficient ways to provide support services to our faculty, staff, and student customers.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Developing, coordinating, and maintaining an integrated system of financial support services,
including accounting and management of financial reporting,
- Exercising effective control over the financial resources of the University,
- Coordinating and synthesizing financial and management data to interpret the composite
financial results of operations for all levels of the University,
- Advising on the development, coordination, and compliance with fiscal policies, procedures,
and plans,
- Analyzing, evaluating, and reporting on program accomplishments in financial terms,
- Advising and assisting top management by providing financial management information as
required to make managerial decisions, and establish organizational goals and objectives,
- Establishing and maintaining an effective accounting and financial reporting system for the
Regents' Fund. This includes the monitoring of the expenditures of these funds for compliance
with donor intent.
ORGANIZATION
Click on any of the "Organization" links, above, to leave this University Guide to Services and jump directly to that "Operation" on the CFO's website.
Navigation: (Navigation tips for this Guide section.)
The Office of the CFO departmental "sub-menu", at the top and bottom of each page of this CFO section of the University Guide to Services, contains the following menu choices:
- Office of the Controller,
- Financial Support Services,
- Contract Services,
- Real Estate Operations,
- Download Forms, and
- Other CFO & Financial Services Information.
The menu choice for "Other CFO & Financial Services Information" section is actually another sub-menu, which contains the following additional menu choices:
(Click on any of the underlined items, below, to jump to that page of the CFO section.)
(Click on any of the underlined items, above,
to jump to that page of the CFO section.)
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