A bursar is a senior professional financial

Finance

"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

 administrator

Academic administration

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 in a school

School

A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...

 or university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

.

Billing of student tuition accounts are the responsibility of the Office of the Bursar. This involves sending bills and making payment plans with the ultimate goal of getting the student accounts paid off. Bursars are not necessarily involved in the financial aid process.

The Bursar Statement is also known as a tuition bill

Invoice

An invoice or bill is a commercial document issued by a seller to the buyer, indicating the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller has provided the buyer. An invoice indicates the buyer must pay the seller, according to the payment terms...

 or a student account bill.

Notable Bursars

• John Maynard Keynes
  John Maynard Keynes
  John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
  
   (1883–1946), second bursar of King's College, Cambridge
  King's College, Cambridge
  King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....
  
   (1924-?)
• The Rev. Prof. Norman Walker Porteous
  Norman Walker Porteous
  Norman Walker Porteous was a noted theologian and writer on Old Testament issues, and the last surviving officer of the First World War....
  
   (1898–2003), first bursar of University of Edinburgh
  University of Edinburgh
  The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
  
  , (1916)
• Codebreaker Derek Taunt
  Derek Taunt
  Derek Roy Taunt was a British mathematician who worked as a codebreaker during World War II at Bletchley Park....
  
   (1917–2004), Jesus College, Cambridge
  Jesus College, Cambridge
  Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
  
  
• Footballer Billy Liddell
  Billy Liddell
  William Beveridge "Billy" Liddell was a Scottish footballer, who played his entire professional career with Liverpool. He signed with the club as a teenager in 1938 and retired in 1961, having scored 228 goals in 534 appearances...
  
   (1922–2001), Liverpool University (?-1984)
• French MEP Bernadette Vergnaud
  Bernadette Vergnaud
  Bernadette Vergnaud is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France...
  
   (b. 1950), University (1976–2004)

• Cecil Goodden
  Cecil Goodden
  Cecil Phelips Goodden was an English cricketer, writer and British Army and Royal Marines officer. Goodden was a right-handed batsman...
  
   (1879-1969), Harrow School
  Harrow School
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In Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

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's Discworld

Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin. The books frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R....

novels there is a character called The Bursar. This character, like the other faculty members of Pratchett's Unseen University

Unseen University

The Unseen University is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. Located in the city of Ankh-Morpork, the UU is staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards. The university's name is a pun on the Invisible College...

, is almost always referred to by his job title.