A Preponderance of Paper -- Not Really.

The article reports that Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan's Athletics Department has a big-time budget exceeding that for many businesses within the private sector of sport management. Through the use of computers, the Athletics Department at Michigan is able to establish fiscal responsibility with the use of a paper trail. Every purchase requires a written request for a purchase order. After that is entered, other paper documents follow this re- quest and ultimately they can be used to find out if there has indeed been fis- cal responsibility for their Athletics Department.