Guiding Principles

Auburn University deserves a budget model that will be able to:

• Prioritize funding of strategic initiatives aligned with Auburn’s mission

• Deliver consistent, accurate, and realistic financial projections, while allowing flexibility to respond to future opportunities and unknowns

• Promote authority, responsibility, and accountability, both locally and university-wide

• Provide incentives for effective management of both revenues and expenses and reward creativity and innovation

• Be simple, transparent, and logical