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The Unit Audit Reports series, 1953-2004 (9.5 linear feet), consist of audits conducted by University Audits staff. Initially, the audits primarily related to units that provided fee-based goods or services such as WUOM, WFUM-TV, Radrick Farms Golf Course, Student Publications, and ICA Summer Camps and Clinics. The William W. Cook Trust was also regularly audited. As the University started to computerize its recordkeeping, auditors were also tasked with evaluating the adequacy of the financial controls for the new accounting systems. Other topics that they reviewed include the control of patient confidentiality, and the Y2K computer conversions. Audit reports were initially unnumbered, but beginning in 1969 were numbered consecutively, with the first digit of the identifier corresponding to the last digit of the fiscal year of the audit. Since numbers were reused a decade later in some cases, two different audits could have the same identifier. They are arranged in order by identifier, which usually corresponds to their chronological order. There is an index of the units audited for the period 1982-2003 which is in the first folder of Box 1.

The External Audits series, 1987-2011 (1.8 linear feet) contain records related to the audits conducted for the University by external auditing firms. There are records relating to audits of Ernst Whinney and its successor firm, Ernst Young between 1987 and 1996. Additionally, records and reports of audits required by the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133 are present. These reports were required beginning in 1990. The paper collection of OMB reports documents the reports from 1992 to 2005. The reports from the most recent eight years are posted on the U-M Financial Operations website: http://www.finance.umich.edu/finops/reporting/annualreports. Archival versions of this page beginning in May 2012 are available in the University Web Archives https://archive-it.org/organizations/934.

The final series, Standard Practice Guide, 1947-2012 (6.7 linear feet) is divided into two subseries, General, 1947-1994 (0.7 linear feet) which contains publicity materials for the SPG Online, copies of the original series of Standard Practice Bulletins that formed the basis of the original Standard Practice Guide, and a complete SPG binder from 1995. The files are arranged alphabetically. The second subseries, Amendments to SPG Provisions, 1968-2012 (6 linear feet) is arranged by SPG number. Each folder consists of the amendment history of a given policy provision. Materials in this series have been digitized and placed for safekeeping in Deep Blue, but are restricted. The digitized files exactly correspond to the materials in Boxes 13-18 and comprise about 1205 items (351.7 MB preprocessed).