{"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":"2026-07-09T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:58:23","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<section class=\"wp-block-group is-style-lightgray-bg has-dark-color has-text-color\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Helpful Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-garnet-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/forms-2\/\">Forms<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-garnet-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2020\/03\/191101_Campus_0075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2020\/03\/191101_Campus_0075-600x900.jpg\" alt=\"Fall foliage on the Bates campus\n\nLane Hall\" class=\"wp-image-1747\" style=\"width:306px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2020\/03\/191101_Campus_0075-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2020\/03\/191101_Campus_0075-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2020\/03\/191101_Campus_0075-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2020\/03\/191101_Campus_0075-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2020\/03\/191101_Campus_0075-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/files\/2020\/03\/191101_Campus_0075.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lane Hall Room 217 &amp; 221<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helpful Links Reporting&nbsp;to the Vice President for Finance &amp; Administration and Treasurer,&nbsp;the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":786,"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":true,"_header_override":"moderate","_template_width_override":"","_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":"Auditing and Financial Reporting, Travel Expense processing, Gift and Grant Processing and other Bates College accounting information.","_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","has-post-thumbnail","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":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/accounting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"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}]}}