Word: britten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major changes--reorganization of the comptroller's offices and the introduction of interim budget reports--will bring the college's financial procedures "from the quill-pen to the IBM," Britten said...
...past Radcliffe compiled only one budget report annually and it was published ten months after the end of the fiscal year. Consequently department heads could not know whether their departments were running in the black, Britten explained. Beginning this fall, Radcliffe has kept a monthly tab on expenditures by computer, and immediately relays the results to department heads...
...Britten predicted that the change would promote more efficient use of funds. "We're going to start running it like the business it is," he said...
Radcliffes budget has also doubled in the last ten years, from three million dollars in 1957 to six million dollars in 1967. "The problem had doubled but the methods hadn't changed," Britten said, explaining the reorganization...
...large proportion of the budget is spent on maintenance of the physical plant. Wages and salary scales, which, according to Britten, had been "miserable," have also gone up in the years since Mary I. Bunting was appointed president...