The Business Office is responsible for the department's operating budgets. This includes preparing, coordinating and analyzing monthly financial data on each account. The Business Office supervises the processing of all vouchers, travel vouchers, purchase requisitions, and interdepartmental orders. In addition, the Business Office supervises monthly and bi-weekly payrolls for all departmental staff consisting of 165 full-time and over 300 part-time employees, vacation and sick leave accruals, form 500, personnel and other confidential records for each budgeted employee.

The Business Office is also responsible for orienting new staff to departmental fiscal policies and procedures, preparing reports and documents required by other agencies and keeping updated notebooks of all current departmental and university policies and procedures. For more information about any of these services, please contact 979.845.8823 or email Sherry Nesbitt.