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Introduction

Welcome to the site of the budget area of the Finance Office. Our goal is to help you understand your budget and its related idiosyncrasies, as well as to provide resources to assist in day-to-day budget management.

This site contains an overview of the budget at Seattle Pacific University, general guidelines for budgeting, and tools for budget management. This site is general in nature and does not attempt to explain all of the details related to accounting and budgeting at Seattle Pacific University.

Seattle Pacific University is a private nonprofit institution of Christian higher education, consisting of multiple budget units with hundreds of funds. The budget is useful at all levels of the University: for those who prepare it as well as for those who interpret it. High-level administrators rely on others to provide this important information.

Please feel free to browse this section. If you have suggestions on content that should be added, please send them to our webmaster at finance@spu.edu.

If you have specific questions regarding budget information on this site, please contact either Cherry Gilbert or Chris Cope (contact information below).

Contacts:

Cherry Gilbert 206-281-2009 cyueh@spu.edu	Assistant Director for Budget & Finance	Support OBP and institutional areas in analysis and development of financial and budget-related information
Chris Cope 206-281-2532 ccope@spu.edu	Budget Analyst	Process budget transfers; track staff salaries; assist the assistant VP of Finance & Budget with budget planning