e-Services Budget Planner

 

Getting Started

  1. From the e-Services main menu, click the Budget Planner link.

  2. Enter your department code and password and select a fiscal year.

  3. Log in.

View the Budget Planner Load Logic.

Budget Director Menu (bp_menu_budg)

  1. User Login Control. Choose one of the 3 levels of access:

  1. Accounts Maintenance. Allows you to ADD an account to the budget planning table

  2. Budget Control. Allows you to adjust the total budget (by group)

  3. Revenue. Allows you to adjust expected income for all revenue accounts

  4. Special Budget. Allows you to adjust SPECIAL budgets (NOT owned by any dept)

  5. Summary. Allows you to adjust amounts used in the summary/spreadsheet

  6. President & VP Salaries. Allows you to adjust salaries for the President and Vice-presidents

 

Vice Presidents' Menu (bp_menu_vp)

The following information represents all the departments that report to you.

  1. For each group, the following totals are displayed:

    • Preliminary budget for the next fiscal year.

    • Adjustment.

    • Adjusted budget for the next fiscal year.

    • Total for all groups for the next fiscal year.

 

  1. Click on one of the groups to see a breakdown by fund.

  2. Click on the OTHER REQUESTS to view requests for monies not requested in one of the groups above.

 

Department Menu (bp_menu_dept)

  1. Click on EACH of the groups to process your budget request.

Note: Even if you make no changes to the proposed budget, you must process each group!

 

PPL Menu (bp_menu_ppl)

  1. Select the order to display your accounts:

  1. Click on NEXT to display your accounts in the order selected.

 

VP Fund (bp_fund_vp)

  1. The following information, sorted by fund, is displayed:


  2. You may enter an adjustment for each fund, either positive or negative. If the adjustment is negative, enter '-', then the dollar amount. Otherwise, enter just the dollar amount. If you want to HOLD BACK some money, make an adjustment to your RESERVE account.

    Note: Any POSITIVE adjustment must have an offsetting NEGATIVE adjustment, so the total of all adjustments is 0.
  3. Click on NEXT to see the adjusted budgets. If the total of your adjustments plus the proposed budgets does NOT equal the Total Budget for the Program area, you will see a message telling you how much you have under/over spent.

    Attention: Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.
  4. If a faculty member is paid out of multiple accounts, the additional account number and wages associated with the account will be noted.

  5. Press "SUBMIT" to commit the changes to the database.

 

Fund (bp_fund)

  1. The following information, sorted by fund, is displayed:

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  3. You may enter an adjustment for each fund, either positive or negative. If the adjustment is negative, enter '-', then the dollar amount. Otherwise, enter just the dollar amount. If you want to HOLD BACK some money, make an adjustment to your RESERVE account.

    Note: Any POSITIVE adjustment must have an offsetting NEGATIVE adjustment, so the total of all adjustments is 0.

  4. Click on NEXT to see the adjusted budgets. If the total of your adjustments plus the proposed budgets does NOT equal the Total Budget for the Program area, you will see a message telling you how much you have under/over spent.

    Attention:
     Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

 

Fund Display (bp_fund_disp)

  1. The following information, sorted by fund, is displayed:

    GREEN BACKGROUND. Department adjustments are complete.

    RED BACKGROUND. Department needs to redo adjustments.

  2.  

  3. Click on a fund to view/change the budget requests for that fund

    Attention: Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

 

Fund (bp_fund_sub)

  1. The following information, sorted by fund, is displayed:

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  3. You may enter an adjustment for each fund, either positive or negative. If the adjustment is negative, enter '-', then the dollar amount. Otherwise, enter just the dollar amount. If you want to HOLD BACK some money, make an adjustment to your RESERVE account.

    Note: Any POSITIVE adjustment must have an offsetting NEGATIVE adjustment, so the total of all adjustments is 0.

  4. Click on NEXT to see the adjusted budgets. If the total of your adjustments plus the proposed budgets does NOT equal the Total Budget for the Program area, you will see a message telling you how much you have under/over spent.

Attention: Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

 

Object Form (bp_object)

  1. The following information is displayed for the fund selected:

  2. Click on SUBMIT to update the database. If the total of your adjustments plus the proposed budgets does NOT equal the Total Budget for this fund, you will see a message telling you how much you have under/over spent.

    Attention: Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

    Note: Even if you make no changes, you must process each fund!

 

Object Display (bp_object_disp)

  1. The following information is displayed for the fund selected:

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  3. Click on BACK for previous screen.

 

"Other" Request Form

This option should be used for a comment that has NOTHING TO DO with requests for Hourly part-time, Overtime, Student employment, Equipment, or Computer equipment.

  1. Explanation. The prompt is displayed for the account selected:

    Note: Maximum comment length is 255 characters. Do not use the double quote character (").

  2. Click on SUBMIT to save your changes to the database.

    Attention: Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

    Attention: Selecting EXIT closes the window. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

 

"Other" Request Display (bp_other_disp)

  1. The following is displayed after your comment is submitted:

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  3. Click on BACK for previous screen

 

Overtime Form (bp_overtime)

  1. Answer the following questions for each name/event requested:

  2.  

  3. Click on SUBMIT to save your changes to the database Total dollar amounts for each entry will be computed after you submit.

    Note: If your department currently has any part-time faculty/staff/hourly employees, you will have a button on the lower part of your screen, to LIST CURRENT EMPLOYEES. Any part-time faculty/staff/hourly employees who will be paid for the next fiscal year MUST be entered.

    Attention: Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

 

Overtime Display (bp_overtime_disp)

  1. After the request has been submitted, the following information is displayed for each item requested:

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  3. Click on BACK to return to the previous page

 

Request Comments (bp_reqcomment)

Attention: Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

 

Request Comment Display (bp_reqcomment_disp)

Request Form (bp_request)

  1. At the top of the screen, you will see the Total Budget for the area selected.

  2. For each department that reports to you, the following is displayed:

  3. Click on NEXT to see the adjusted budgets. If the total of your adjustments plus the proposed budgets does NOT equal the Total Budget for the Request area, you will see a message telling you how much you have under/over spent.


    Attention: Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

 

Request Display (bp_request_display)

  1. At the top of the screen, you will see the Total Budget for the area selected.

  2. For each department that reports to you, the following is displayed:

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  4. Click on a fund to enter/view a request for Staff/Hourly Part-time, Overtime, or Permanent Equipment.

 

Computer Request Form (bp_reqcomputer)

  1. The following information, sorted by fund, is displayed:

    GREEN BACKGROUND. Form completed, comments completed.

    RED BACKGROUND. Form completed, comments incomplete.

  2.  

  3. Click for form.

    Note: There will NOT be a button to click on if the department has not yet submitted a request for computer equipment or student employment.

 

Equipment Request Form (bp_equipment)

  1. Answer the following questions for each item requested:

  2. Click on SUBMIT to save your data entry to the database.

    Attention
    : Selecting BACK returns to the previous screen. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED. Selecting EXIT closes the window. CHANGES ARE NOT SAVED.

 

Equipment Request Display (bp_equipment_disp)

  1. After the request has been submitted, the following information is displayed for each item requested:

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  3. The total dollar amount of requests was computed when the SUBMIT button was clicked.

  4. Click on BACK to return to the previous screen.

 

Faculty Display (bp_faculty_disp)

  1. Current part-time employees are shown for the account number selected.

    Note: Any part-time faculty/staff/hourly employees who will be paid for the next fiscal year MUST be entered.

  2. Click on BACK to return to the previous page.

 

Faculty Payroll Adjustment (Vice President of Academic Affairs) (bp_faculty_chg_help)

 

Faculty Payroll Adjustment (Vice President of Academic Affairs) (bp_faculty_pr_chg_help)

 

Faculty Payroll Adjustment (Vice President of Academic Affairs) (bp_faculty_prchg_help)

 

Faculty Payroll Adjustment (Vice President of Academic Affairs) (bp_faculty_pr2_chg_help)

 

Faculty Rank Adjustment (Vice President of Academic Affairs) (bp_rank_help)

  1. Enter rank amounts should in increments of $25 (eg. 2225, 2250, 2275.)

  2. Press "SUBMIT" to submit your rank changes to the database.

    Note: Submitting your changes also updates the salaries of all faculty.

 

Full Time Hourly Rate Adjustments (bp_per_ft_chg_help)

  1. For the employee whose name is listed, you may adjust the following:

  2.  

  3. Displayed fields are:

Note: Changes may be made to the hiredate and the man power area in the employee's payroll/human resource record. The fund and object can be changed in the employee's pay segment record. The ID number cannot be changed.

  1. Once all entries have been completed, press the SUBMIT button at the bottom of your screen.

    Attention: You must SUBMIT your payroll adjustments so they may be recorded in the database. Even if you have no changes, you must press the "submit" button at least once so that an employee has her/his insurance, FICA and retirement calculated by the program.

 

Full Time Hourly Rate Adjustment Display (bp_per_ft_help)

 

Full Time Hourly Rate Adjustments (bp_per_pt_chg_help)

  1. For the employee whose name is listed, you may adjust the following:

  2.  

  3. Displayed fields are:

    Note: The fund and object can be changed in the employee's pay segment record. The ID number cannot be changed.

  4. Once all entries have been completed, press the SUBMIT button at the bottom of your screen.

    Attention: You must SUBMIT your payroll adjustments so they may be recorded in the database. Even if you have no changes, you must press the "submit" button at least once so that an employee has her/his FICA calculated by the program.

 

Part Time Hourly Rate Adjustment Display (bp_per_pt_help)

 

PPL (bp_ppl)

  1. The following information is displayed:

  2. Click on NEXT to see the adjusted budgets. If the total of your adjustments plus the proposed budgets does NOT equal the Total Budget for this area, you will see a message telling you how much you have under/over spent.

  3. Click on BACK for previous screen.

 

PPL Display (bp_ppl_disp)

  1. The following information is displayed:

  2.  

  3. Click on BACK for previous screen.

 

 

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