{"id":730,"date":"2011-10-27T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/?page_id=730"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:57:47","slug":"welcome-to-the-accounting-and-financial-reporting-website","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/","title":{"rendered":"Accounting and Financial Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-946c1612 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex wp-states-e692b802\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-constrained wp-block-column-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized is-style-default\" style=\"margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited-675x900.webp\" alt=\"Fall foliage on the Bates campus\n\nLane Hall\" class=\"wp-image-2588\" style=\"width:400px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited-675x900.webp 675w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited-471x628.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited-1152x1536.webp 1152w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited-1536x2048.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2026\/10\/191101_Campus_0075-edited.webp 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lane Hall Room 217 &amp; 221<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">Reporting&nbsp;to the Vice President for Finance &amp; Administration and Treasurer,&nbsp;the Accounting Department is responsible for the financial transactions of the College. Key areas of responsibility include: auditing and financial reporting;&nbsp;ensuring the&nbsp;defined use of funds in accordance with Federal, State and College policies and procedures; and planning, implementing, and executing measures of internal control to ensure the highest levels of integrity are maintained in the safekeeping of the College&#8217;s&nbsp;financial assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mission of the Accounting Department is to&nbsp;support the programs and activities of the College and to serve as&nbsp;a resource and business partner with&nbsp;the internal and external Bates community by providing timely, accurate and actionable&nbsp;financial data. Our aim is to maintain and further enhance the cost effectiveness and efficiency of Bates financial operations while being ethically responsible and delivering both our mission and the mission of Bates in a professional and thoughtful manner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-eaac8c07 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);flex-basis:20%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-custom-css has-gray-light-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow wp-custom-css-6541cc21\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-garnet-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\"><strong>Quick Links<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div style=\"--wp--block-button--width: 100;\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-garnet-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/forms-2\/\">Forms<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div style=\"--wp--block-button--width: 100;\" class=\"wp-block-button is-style-garnet-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"--wp--block-button--width: 100;\" class=\"wp-block-button is-style-garnet-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Year End Procedures<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting&nbsp;to the Vice President for Finance &amp; Administration and Treasurer,&nbsp;the Accounting Department&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"wide","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-730","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}