Word: accountant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faculty members said that account-ability may prove to be the most controversial topic at today's meeting...
...committee's central concern was with the University's General Operating Account (GOA), an internal bank of sorts where Harvard requires its nine schools to deposit their working capital--a total of $1.676 billion in fiscal year '96. The central administration, in turn, invests the funds which are not immediately needed and uses these profits to cover about 47 percent of its budget, by far its largest income source...
When Vice President of Finance Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper took office two years ago, she also had concerns about the account and hired Cambridge Associates, a local consulting firm, to analyze the GOA. The firm recently issued a three volume report which Harvard officials are reviewing...
...since the most devastating one-day plunge in history, Americans are married to the market in confounding degrees. They have the trust of a newlywed that stocks will be a lifetime mate. The average person has more invested in the market than in the house that shelters him. Stocks account for more than 40% of the average household's financial assets, more than in any period in history. The percentage of adult Americans who own stock has risen from 10.4% in 1965 to 43% today...
...summer at small-town grocery stores. He found that late in the month an increasing number of shoppers were buying as little as $20 worth of groceries with a credit card. Many were cash short because they were having $100 or $200 a month automatically debited from their checking account and plunked into a stock fund...