Bristow University is a large private school located in the Midwest. The university is headed by a

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Bristow University is a large private school located in the Midwest. The university is headed by a president who has five vice presidents reporting to him. These vice presidents are responsible for, respectively, auxiliary services, admissions and re cords, academics, financial services (controller), and the physical plant. In addition the university has managers over several areas who report to these vice presidents. These include managers over central purchasing, the university press, and the university bookstore, all of whom report to the vice president for auxiliary services, managers over computer services and over accounting and finance, who report to the vice president for financial services, and managers over grounds and custodial services and over plant and maintenance, who report to the vice president for physical plant. The university has four colleges-business, humanities, fine arts, and engineering and quantitative methods-and a law school. Each of these units has a dean who is responsible to the academic vice president. Each college has several departments. Required:

1. Prepare an organization chart for Bristow University.

2. Which of the positions on your chart would be line positions? Why would they be line positions? Which would be staff positions? Why?

3. Which of the positions on your chart would have need for accounting information? Explain.

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Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0697789938

13th Edition

Authors: Ray H. Garrison, Eric W. Noreen, Peter C. Brewer

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