Business Affairs
Focus on monitoring activities concludes five-part series on COSO framework
An emphasis on monitoring activities is the final COSO internal standard being examined in a series of five articles.
Ongoing evaluations, separate evaluations or some combination of the two are monitoring activities used to determine whether each of the five components of internal control, including controls to affect the principles within each component, is present and functioning.
Fourth COSO article deals with information and communication
Information and communication combine to form the fourth level of the COSO framework, and they are topics for this article in the ongoing series.
Campus to open and classes resume at noon, Thursday, Feb. 26
Effective at noon today (Feb. 26), UNC Charlotte returns to normal operations, Operating Status 1. Classes will be in session and UNC Charlotte offices will be open. Students, faculty and staff should use judgment about the appropriate course of action in individual circumstances as the weather impact varies across the UNC Charlotte service region. In all cases, allow significantly more time for travel and exercise caution.
Campus closed through noon Feb. 26, BOG to meet as scheduled
Effective midnight through noon Thursday, Feb. 26, UNC Charlotte will be in Operating Status 3, emergency closure.
Third article in COSO series focuses on control activities
Control activities are the third aspect of COSO standards of internal control examined in a series of articles being published in Inside UNC Charlotte.
Risk assessment second COSO standard of internal control
In this second article in a series about the importance of the COSO standards of internal control, the focus is on risk assessment.
UNC Charlotte to return to normal operating status at noon, officials continue to monitor conditions
UNC Charlotte will return to normal operating status at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 18 (OS1). Classes will resume and office and operations will be open.
Updated COSO internal control framework has implications for entire University
Recently, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) updated its internal control standards, which form the backbone of internal control frameworks in organizations worldwide. North Carolina has adopted the COSO standards across all government agencies and universities, which has implications for all UNC Charlotte employees.
University competing in national recycling competition
UNC Charlotte is participating in Recyclemania, a national recycling competition and benchmarking tool. College and university programs use this event to promote waste reduction activities on their campuses.
During a 10-week period (Feb. 1 through April 4), schools report recycling and trash data; institutions are then ranked by the ones that collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita, along with various other categories.
Pilot program to monitor electric vehicles, University to add 20 charging stations
UNC Charlotte is committed to becoming a regional model of sustainable stewardship, and toward that goal, the University recently earned two Clean Fuel Advanced Technology Project grants totaling $64,000.