Report 2010-105 Recommendation 6 Responses

Report 2010-105: University of California: Although the University Maintains Extensive Financial Records, It Should Provide Additional Information to Improve Public Understanding of Its Operations (Release Date: July 2011)

Recommendation #6 To: University of California

To ensure that the campus financial information published by the Office of the President can be better evaluated by interested stakeholders, the university should disclose instances in which campuses subsidize auxiliary enterprises with revenues from other funding sources and should disclose the sources of that funding.

Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2013

This information is posted on the following website: http://www.ucop.edu/financial-accounting/financial-reports/university-auxiliary-support/index.html

California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Fully Implemented

The university has posted to its website a report that shows, by campus, the different auxiliary enterprises that have been subsidized and what funding source was used to subsidize each auxiliary enterprise. Currently the website only presents information for fiscal year 2011-12, but we look forward to the university regularly updating this information to reflect subsequent fiscal years.

Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2012

We developed a model for collecting this data and will be collecting the data for the year ending June 30, 2012. We expect to publish the data by 12/31/2012.

California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Not Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2010-105

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.