CSU Auxiliary Organization Sound Business Practice Guidelines v1

Purpose and Objective

Title 5 §42401 and §42402 requires that CSU auxiliary organizations operate in conformity with the policies of the CSU Board of Trustees and the campus. One of the objectives of an auxiliary organization is to provide fiscal procedures and management systems designed to protect its assets and interests in accordance with sound business practices along with those of the campus. These guidelines are designed to assist CSU auxiliary organizations in achieving this end.

Sound Business Practices

Sound business practices1 are a set of protocol, standards, instructions, regimen, of practices that in the judgment of management contribute to achieving a targeted level of control or quality. They are not mandates as to specificity of implementation, but animate underlying control objectives and principles.