Athletic scholarships are approved by the athletic department and awarded by the
University Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid. The athletic business manager was
not actively involved in this procedure. The athletic business manager is the individual
directly accessible to the financial figures of an athletic department. The process of
approving and awarding an athletic scholarship needed to be designed.
A computer program was created to aid the athletic business manager in
maintaining athletic scholarship information. The computer program is flexible to allow
information to be entered or deleted concerning athletic scholarships. Budget allocations
for each sport, agreed upon by the athletic business manager and the Director of Athletics,
are programmed into the computer. Each time information is entered, adjustments
concerning total scholarship expenditures and variances between budget allocations and
scholarship expenditures are made.
The computer program is a good tool for the athletic business manager in
justifying, maintaining, and controlling scholarship costs. The program is capable of
generating numerous financial reports. The financial reports may aid the athletic business
manager and the A.D. in developing budgets for future athletic scholarships.
next to an author's name indicates that all files or directories associated with their ETD are accessible from the Virginia Tech campus network only.
![[VT]](http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/images/ETD-db/restricted.gif)
