Higher Education Budgeting – Unclassified Employee Payroll

What is  Unclassified Employee Payroll Budgeting?

Unclassified Payroll Budgets are considered employee budget models and are often used by budget managers to plan for all unclassified salary and benefit related personnel expenses. Key functionality in this type of input form automates budgeting for expenses related to permanent and temporary positions. Features include data capture by salary grade, merit changes, insurance, health and retirement benefits and more. Totals by department roll up to the related general ledger expense accounts. You will find an example of this type of input form below.

Purpose of Unclassified Payroll Templates

Universities and colleges use Unclassified Payroll Templates to provide the easiest, most secure employee budget model with automated calculations. When used as part of good business practices in a Budgeting and Planning department, a higher education institution can improve its employee budget process, as well as, reduce the chances that calculation mistakes causes expense accuracy issues.

Unclassified Payroll Template Example

Here is an example of a University Budget Form for Unclassified Payroll.

Higher Education Budgeting - Unclassified Employee Payroll Example

Higher Education Budgeting – Unclassified Employee Payroll Example

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Who Uses This Type of Input Form?

The typical users of this type of input form are: Budget Officers and HR Managers.

Other Input Forms Often Used in Conjunction with Unclassified Payroll Templates

Progressive Budgeting and Planning Departments sometimes use several different Unclassified Payroll Templates, along with payroll assumptions, capex, operating expense and revenue templates and other management and control tools.

Where Does the Data for Analysis Originate From?

The Actual (historical transactions) data typically comes from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems like: Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) Finance, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP ByDesign, Acumatica, Netsuite, and others.

In analyses where budgets or forecasts are used, the planning data most often originates from in-house Excel spreadsheet models or from professional corporate performance management (CPM/EPM) solutions.

What Tools are Typically used for Reporting, Planning and Dashboards?

Examples of business software used with the data and ERPs mentioned above are:

  • Native ERP report writers and query tools
  • Spreadsheets (for example Microsoft Excel)
  • Corporate Performance Management (CPM) tools (for example Solver)
  • Dashboards (for example Microsoft Power BI and Tableau)

Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Cloud Solutions and More Examples

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