Business Office Reset
News from the world of private higher education Business Offices. Tips, tricks, best practices and days in the life of university operations.
Episodes
October 21, 2024 • 19 mins
Stephanie Craig, crisis manager extraordinaire, shares the best kept secret of risk and crisis management: it happens well before the crisis. Join her for insights into the risk landscape of higher education (spoiler alert: it's reputation management!) as well as quick wins your institution can implement right away to have a significant impact.
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August 12, 2024 • 19 mins
Aaron Kuecker, President of Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL, talks through the nuances of leading through challenging times, building decisions around the mission, and drawing a community together while making tough calls.
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July 22, 2024 • 18 mins
Between Academic and Financial Leadership on campus, there tend to be the most employees, biggest reporting structures, and at times, most contentious relationships. We chat with Amy Kovach and Scott Campbell, serving at Mount Vernon Nazarene University as the VPAA and CFO, about the success they've had in collaboration with one another and tips for other CFOs in those important relationships.
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July 8, 2024 • 16 mins
Turn the microphone around to talk with Jessica Ryals about approaching the Chart of Accounts for better campus understanding and financial reporting. She provides tips from a full overhaul to small scale changes you can make today that have an impact.
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June 24, 2024 • 14 mins
For this series, we're flipping the mic! Scott Spear interviews Jessica Ryals on what she's seeing in the industry. We kick off with bank reconciliations - what's going wrong? What best practices can we implement? And most importantly, what can we change TODAY to have an impact?
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June 3, 2024 • 32 mins
Katie Booth talks through Higher Ed marketing, her higher ed career, what's great about marketing and how business offices can better relate to and interact with their marketing team. She offers great tips for using internal and external marketing resources alike!
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May 13, 2024 • 29 mins
Continuing our Tough Times series, Jeff Spear talks through some key metrics and ratios institutions can use to measure health over time, and the ways there is hope for the industry if we work toward these metrics going forward.
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April 29, 2024 • 21 mins
New series starting on Tough Times in Higher Ed, and we're kicking off with Gary Stocker. He talks through the industry situation, why he sees closures as inevitable, and the availability of his IPEDS-fueled College Viability App for employees and prospective families alike to get a picture of their institutions.
Gary: www.collegeviability.com
Jessica: jessica@cfocolleague.com
Gary: www.collegeviability.com
Jessica: jessica@cfocolleague.com
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April 22, 2024 • 20 mins
Have you ever wanted to pick Dave Moja's brain on the 990? As we finalize 2023 and look to 2024's filings, Dave takes us through the key areas of the form, what to watch out for, and how to spend your time on the most impactful areas. Don't miss Part 1 or Part 2 of our chat!
Dave can be reached at dave@mojacpa.com.
Jessica can be reached at jessica@cfocolleague.com
Dave can be reached at dave@mojacpa.com.
Jessica can be reached at jessica@cfocolleague.com
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April 8, 2024 • 20 mins
Have you ever wanted to pick Dave Moja's brain on the 990? As we finalize 2023 and look to 2024's filings, Dave takes us through the key areas of the form, what to watch out for, and how to spend your time on the most impactful areas. Don't miss Part 1 or Part 2 of our chat!
Dave can be reached at dave@mojacpa.com.
Jessica can be reached at jessica@cfocolleague.com
Dave can be reached at dave@mojacpa.com.
Jessica can be reached at jessica@cfocolleague.com
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March 20, 2024 • 12 mins
How do we think about the Academic Programs we offer? What do we do with faculty attrition? How can we set ourselves up to have conversations around programs that don't require radical changes? We chat with Scott Spear about new ways to think about resourcing our academic programs through data generosity and collaborative decision making.
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March 4, 2024 • 26 mins
Our friends from Credo are back! Sean and Joretta talk through the importance of our financial clearance process as an institution in the student success space, and spoiler alert, the follow on effects on student retention AND cash flow for the institution. A must-listen for every business officer struggling to gain traction on accounts receivable and shining a light on why our students (as well as our employees) need us to take th...
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February 19, 2024 • 24 mins
We chat with Victoria Pierce about the intricacies of endowment accounting, making Workday work for their institution (even without the endowment module) and ways to integrate endowment work throughout the year to make year-end more manageable.
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February 5, 2024 • 25 mins
We talk with Leah Miller, Director of HR at Kenyon College, about the shifting landscape of HR in higher education, from hiring to onboarding to retaining employees, and ways to shift our perspective to get and keep the right talent.
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January 22, 2024 • 20 mins
As we're rethinking higher ed, Jan Haas talks us through ways we can look at what we have as institutions - buildings, faculty, programs - and use them in new ways to serve our communities and continue our mission.
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January 8, 2024 • 26 mins
Jeff Spear talks recruitment, financial aid leveraging, and studying who's successful at our institutions to determine who to go after moving forward. This kicks off our Rethinking series to propose new ways of life in higher ed for the new year.
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December 11, 2023 • 16 mins
When looking at budget deficits and shifts, how can we approach expense reduction in a way that has the most impact? Jan Haas talks through steps to reducing expenses that have the biggest budget effect with the least amount of campus disruption.
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December 4, 2023 • 25 mins
Jeff Spear talks through running an Enterprise vs. Operational budget, using ratios and benchmarks to build a "new" zero-based budget, and campus mindset shifts that allow us to bring about these changes.
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October 30, 2023 • 13 mins
Scott Spear talks us through setting up policies and systems to help the budget process, including timelines, the right voices in the room, and follow up through the year.
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September 18, 2023 • 19 mins
Dr. Roger Parrott talks fundraising from the President's role, the importance of having a solid fundraising plan as a President, and presenting prospective donors with the opportunity to give
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