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Budget Preparation

USL Financials Budget Preparation solution supports your need to decentralize budget development activities and automate the budget submission process. We deliver a secure and fully integrated tool that provides your users with the baseline budget developed by your administrative office, and then give them the tools that allow them to modify the base budget, create scenarios, and add important justification comments.

USL Financials Budget Preparation module enables you to manage your entire budget lifecycle by offering a budget preparation and monitoring tool that provides real time access to budget information. This solution provides the Budget Managers with the ability to distribute, review, modify, redistribute and approve and post within a secure and integrated environment. The budget administrator can define multiple budget plans, track the progress and status simultaneously. Budget preparers and approvers can create different what-if versions until they select one to submit for approval and/or posting. Approved budgets are seamlessly posted to the General ledger.

The General Journal supports automatic reversal for accrual entries, and an unlimited number of journal entries. Each entry is marked for sub-ledger source. Detailed notes can be added and updated as necessary.

FLEXIBILITY

Real-time budget management means no outside spreadsheets

SYSTEM INTEGRATION

Fully integrated with the USL Financials General Ledger and other USL modules and many third-party applications.

AUDIT TRAILS

Provides for the inevitable budget adjustments to with easy “budget journal entries” that allows full audit trail of any changes.

WORKFLOW AND APPROVAL

Allows administrator review and approval, along with user-defined security and workflow.

ONLINE HELP

USL Financials contains context-sensitive, online help for all features and functions of the system.

REPORTING

Instant real-time summary budgets from multiple perspectives can be prepared to view the budget status at any time to guide strategic planning.

FEATURES

Fully integrated with the USL Financials General Ledger and other USL modules and many third-party applications

Real-time budget management means no outside spreadsheets

Multiple budget plans provide a simplified decentralized budgeting process by distributing the budgeting to different Managers, restricting access to only their accounts

Instant real-time summary budgets from multiple perspectives can be prepared to view the budget status at any time to guide strategic planning. Each report can be selected, sorted, and totaled in a variety of ways, with optional supporting justification – giving you the information you need, in the way you want to see it

Forecast future budget needs using historical data and user-defined calculations or formulas enabling you to better anticipate needs and ensure alignment with your overall financial strategic direction

Allows administrator review, and approval

Full audit trails

User-defined security and workflow

Seamlessly update the general ledger with newly completed and approved budget totals

Provides for the inevitable budget adjustments to with easy “budget journal entries” that allows full audit trail of any changes

Specific Calculations & Assumptions can be assigned each of the multiple budget plans

Budgets can be applied to any line as annual budget, automatically calculated and spread evenly

BUDGET PREPARATION

Review the Budget Preparation Cutsheet