Budget season is upon us.  As we are all sharpening our pencils and tighten our budgets even more than we have done for first interim, we want to remind our users that there are fantastic tools at your finger tips to help you with projections, no matter what flavor (HP, Financial 2000 or a combinations of both).

We hope that you have taken advantage of our trainings which included SAMS/BDV Refresher where the entire budget process was covered.  Also offered were new user and refresher Budget Development 2000 trainings (including Site Based Budget Development), a Personnel 2000 refresher as well as EduReports trainings.

Many of you have already begun the budget process by doing various rolls including the Field Definition roll, MAGIC Fiscal Year roll, General Ledger to Budget Development roll, SAMS Roll and Expense Roll to Budget Development.  Don’t forget that we have a complete step by step budget development checklist to assist you through the entire process regardless of what programs are being utilized.  The complete SAMS/BDV budget process checklist and training materials are available on SharePoint by clicking the following link.  You will need your user name and password to access these files.  If you need assistance, please contact your CECC technical representative.

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Some of our powerful tools include the Salary Analysis Management System (SAMS) to aid in building models.  SAMS will allow you to model a multitude of scenarios.  Remember also the Increase/Decrease modeling feature as well. 

Budget Development has projection tools which allows for the mass changing of data by percentage as well as the powerful Formula feature.  Users can balance their resources (or programs) online using BDV2000.  BDV2000 also provides for the ability to export to Excel to assist in the analysis of your budget.

A recent enhancement is included in the 08-1g release related to budgeting for PERS Reduction costs. The SAMS programs have been modified to use the payroll maps to map employer cost and will no longer user the old SAMS maps.  Now that mapping in SAMS is driven by the payroll maps PERS Reduction will also map based on the set up that is currently done for payroll purposes.  PERS Reduction will calculate on employees that are subject to PERS, providing the resource in the account(s) that the employee is charged to, are identified as a PERS Reduction resource.

We know that the current economic situation calls for a trying budget season.  Please know that we are here to support your system needs and  to assist you through the budget building process.