The Central Association of College and University Business Officers (CACUBO) is one of four regional associations of college and university business officers in the United States. CACUBO was the first regional association of business officers to be established. Its history dates back to 1909, when business officers from six midwestern state institutions met to discuss accounting and financial reporting. CACUBO was formally organized in 1912 and acquired its present name in 1946.

The other regional associations include the Eastern Association (EACUBO), founded in 1920; the Southern Association (SACUBO), established in 1928; and the Western Association (WACUBO), founded in 1936. The regional associations cooperatively founded the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) in 1962.

The mission of CACUBO is to improve college and university financial management and business administration, and to promote the profession’s ideals, ethics and standards. CACUBO’s goals are threefold:

1) Provide professional development opportunities and leadership for all levels of staff in business and financial management
2) Provide effective, concerted action in all matters affecting the financial welfare of institutions of higher education
3) Support the mission and goals of NACUBO

The Regional and national associations work together in the following ways:

• Joint programming and administrative support
  
  
  
  • The leadership of the regional associations meets, on a regular basis, to share program ideas and delivery methods. Joint programming and administrative support ventures are now regular agenda items for the inter-association meetings.
    
  
  
  • Two current cooperative efforts are:
    
    
    
    • The AIMS Database (PDF format, requires Adobe Acrobat)
      
    
    
    • The ACUBO Innovation Process
    
    
    
    • The ACUBO Leaders' Guidebook 7.20.06
      
    
    
    • The ACUBO Update, September 2006
      
    
    
    • The CFO ACUBO Competency Survey 2005
      
    
    
    • The Budget or Financial Analyst ACUBO Competency Survey 2005
      


• Leadership sharing
  


• The CACUBO President and his two predecessors sit on the NACUBO Board of Directors
  


• CACUBO members are elected to the NACUBO Board
  


• CACUBO members serve on various NACUBO committees
  


• All member institutions of CACUBO are eligible to become members of NACUBO
  





• Sharing of best practices
  


• The associations share information on programs and practices and their outcomes
  


• The associations partner on various projects of mutual benefit