Tufts Community Union Treasury

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Tufts Community Union Treasury
Budgeting Meeting 2008-2009
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Budgeting Timeline

• Monday, January 27 Mandatory Budget Mtg
  Pearson 104 at 9pm
• Tuesday, January 28 Mandatory Budget Mtg
  Barnum 008 at 9pm
• Friday February 6 Preliminary drafts of budgets
  due before 5pm (via email TCUTreasury_at_tufts.edu)
• Monday, February 9-Friday February 27
  Signatories work with their ALBO Council Chairs
  to negotiate final budgets
• Friday, February 27 Final budgets are due before
  500 pm (by e-mail)
• Wednesday, March 11 ALBO will review budgets and
  check math
• Wednesday, March 18 ALBO will hear appeals and
  vote on budgets
• Sunday, April 5 TCU Senate will hear appeals and
  vote on budgets

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Excel Key Points

• DO NOT delete any the formulas in the yellow
  section or the budget Summary
• DO NOT let your text descriptions or anything
  exceed past Column E.
• Be sure to change the group name and account
  number in the footer View?Header and Footer

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Financial Statement
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EXPENDITURE GUIDELINES

• Travel
• Out of State Travel Meet with Treasurer FIRST!
• Airfare when cheapest
• No Airfare Reimbursements
• Conferences are not to be included in FY10
  Budgets.

• Food Sub-code
• 30 Council I IV
• 15 All Others
• Apparel
• Net to Zero
• Exception Central to activitys mission
  Treasury approval needed

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INCOME GUIDELINES

• Everything must be deposited
• All cash/checks must be brought to Treasury and
  deposited in person
• Checks may take up to 4 weeks to be cashed
• Income Through Ticket Sales
• Make sure Univ. Cost Transfer is filled out and
  brought to Treasury after event

• Rollover Accounts
• ONLY unbudgeted income outside donations are
  eligible to rollover

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Helpful Hints

• Student Life Fund, deadlines will be announced
• Office hours http//senate.tufts.edu/treasury
• ALBO now meets on Wednesday nights at 730PM.
  Deadline is the Monday before by 5PM

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What Next?

• Sign-in in the front of the room.
• New signatories fill in forms.
• Download the budget template and put together a
  budget to submit to the Treasury via e-mail
  (TCUTreasury_at_tufts.edu)
• Schedule 3 appointments with your ALBO chair.
  Sign-up sheets will be up by Friday morning
• Veda Shastri-- TCUJ

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Thank You!
Tufts Community Union Treasury 216 Mayer Campus
Center ?[phone] ?[phone] tcutreasur
y_at_tufts.edu
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