Asset Management

Asset Management provides students with a comprehensive picture of how capital equipment is managed here at Duke. This class details: a) the processes involved in purchasing capital equipment, b) the procedures Plant Accounting follows in physically tagging and conducting inventories of all capital equipment, c) the reports available within SAP that will allow a department to view details regarding their capital equipment, and d) the proper procedures to follow when disposing of a piece of capital equipment here at Duke. Asset Management is part of the Research Costing Compliance (RCC) Certification Program designed to provide financial/grant administrators with an overall body of knowledge so they are responsible custodians for the funds they manage.