Financial & Administrative Services

Cost of maintaining, repairing, or replacing any part of a building structure, it's systems, components and/or infrastructure are paid for by CPPO. All processing and payment of requisitions, purchase orders, contracts and invoices related to maintenance and small renovation projects are managed at the Accounts Payable desk.

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Information Management

Using a computer-based maintenance and management system, CPPO's staff is able to service our campus beginning with a request for work, progressing to a corrective job, and then finishing with a preventive maintenance job. All software and hardware are reviewed periodically and upgrades, support, and implementation of the system occur as necessary.

FMS utilizes a PeopleSoft number to:

Track all cost associated with a project in one area
The information is constant across all projects
Capture cross-financial year accounting information
Doe not contaminate any funding or reporting needs with project cost
No JE’s required to generate a report
Better control of the budget

Use of G/L Accounts

Accounts to track budget specific to SMU Construction needs
These accounts parallel the construction budget model

They are:
6970 Construction

6971 Furnishing

6972 Equipment

6973 Professional Services and

6974 Development/Public Relations

Use of Sub-class

Sub-classes support G/L accounts
Sub-classes provide a detailed breakdown within each account