Solve Your Biggest Business Problems with These Member Advantages

ABACC equips you with exclusive access to professional development, networking, and mutual support.


A business officer is carrying a Bible and a brown leather bag.

As a Christian business officer working in higher education, you need encouragement and support from a community of believers with the knowledge, expertise, and experience to help you overcome the challenges and problems that impact the sustainability of your institution.

ABACC empowers and equips our members with exclusive access to networking, resources, training, and education from a Christian worldview.

Our members-only advantages include:

Professional Development

  • Advanced Communication Skills Course

    Your most significant strength is likely in numbers. But your role demands that you’re able to clearly express those figures and the decisions they inspire to various audiences. Learn more about and access this course of on-demand training videos.

  • Annual Conference

    For 65 years, the ABACC Annual Conference has been the preferred choice for professional development, providing high-quality training and resources presented exclusively from a Christian worldview.

  • Apply for CPE Credits

    Conference and focus webinar attendees can earn CPE Credits by enrolling and participating in these events. Apply for your CPE credits here.

  • Business Office 360°

    The Business Office 360° training program is an intensive, fast-paced program covering the most common areas you need to understand in order to become competent and excel in your role as a business officer.

  • Certification

    Our mission is to help our members achieve recognition through professional development so they can reach their full potential. Gain respect as a strategic advisor and invite new career opportunities as a Certified Christian Higher Education Business Professional.

  • Focus Webinars

    To help ABACC members stay up-to-date on the latest trends, hot topics, and best practices, our free focus webinars dive deep into relevant and practical matters.

  • Mentoring Program

    ABACC’s Mentoring Program is designed to help our members improve their personal and professional lives with the help of a mentor—someone with experience, compassion, and a servant’s heart. 

  • Speakers Bureau

    ABACC can provide speakers and workshops to member institutions on a variety of topics related to business and financial issues in Christian higher education and non-profit administration.

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Networking

  • Career Center

    The Career Center is a free service to all ABACC members and institutions. You can search for a job, submit your resume, or post a job opening. You can also visit our affiliated websites for additional employment opportunities.

  • Member Community

    ABACC’s Member Community is an online forum where our members can connect, collaborate, and learn from their peers anytime.

  • Membership Directories

    Download lists of current members and corporate partners at any time.

  • Peer Group Visits

    Designed to be the antithesis of an accreditation review, Peer Group Visits facilitate the sharing of best practices and success stories for our members to learn from comparable schools—benefiting both the visitor’s business leadership and their institution.

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Mutual Support

  • Alliance Defending Freedom

    ABACC has partnered with Alliance Defending Freedom to help prepare and protect your school for challenges to your religious liberty. Through this partnership, ABACC members get 20% off ADF Ministry Alliance membership dues.

  • Consulting Consortium

    The individuals and organizations in our Consulting Consortium are experienced professionals chosen because of their reputation for quality service and their willingness to serve Christians in higher education.

  • Cooperative Contracts

    Drive down your costs with cooperative contracts. ABACC has entered into an exciting strategic partnership with E&I Cooperative Services (E&I), the nation’s only member-owned, not-for-profit sourcing cooperative focused exclusively on education.

  • Foundations of Higher Ed Finance

    ABACC’s foundational videos are perfect for college and university presidents, board and cabinet members, department chairs, and others who want to understand the business of higher education better.

  • Legal Guidance

    Husch Blackwell’s Higher Education team is pleased to partner with ABACC to examine the policies, systems, and operations of its member institutions, in order to improve effectiveness and compliance.

  • Peer Consultants Bureau

    ABACC can send a colleague from a member institution to your campus to provide objective, third-party support in evaluating your business office.

  • Data Warehouse

    The Data Warehouse, powered by CapinCrouse LLP, gathers and analyzes a variety of data about the leading Christian colleges and universities represented by ABACC members. 

  • Sample Documents

    ABACC members have generously shared reference documents that their peers can customize and use at their institution, including financial statements, policies and procedures, RFPs, dashboards, and board reports and agendas.

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Our Promise to You

At ABACC, we understand what it takes to succeed in Christ-centered higher education. Our mission is to help you gain recognition through professional development so you can reach your full potential.