An Overview of ARC’s Budget Services Jaime Harbour Budget/Reporting Supervisor Accounts and Reports Branch

Budget Service Levels  Funds Control (Basic) Document entry and reprogrammings Maintaining system funds control SF-132 support  Basic services plus MAX Reporting MAX A-11 Data Entry (includes appendix text and appropriation language)  Full Service

Funds Control  System funds control  Document entry  Reprogrammings  Continuing Resolution (CR) calculations and entries  SF-132 support  Basic research

Funds Control + MAX Services  Obligations by program activity  Calculation of outlay rates  Obligation detail breakout (Sch. O)  FTE presentation (Sch. Q)  Balancing of accounts (MAX errors)  Appendix text and appropriation language upload

Full Service  Formulation of annual budgets  SF-132 preparation and submission  Quarterly reviews (payroll and non- payroll items)  Payroll cost projections  FTE analysis/monitoring  OMB data call assistance

ARC Predict  Budget Tool Assists in formulating payroll amounts for fiscal budgets Goal – 95% accuracy Lessens need for external spreadsheets  Can be prepared by ARC budget staff using payroll assumptions provided by customer

ARC Predict  Uses the most recent Payroll data and GL balances  The tool is designed to make a projection up to one future Fiscal Year  Able to copy existing projections to quickly create multiple scenarios

ARC Predict  Payroll and Personnel Files Received from one of the four E-Payroll providers (DFAS, NFC, GSA, NBC)  High Level Assumptions Medicare tax rate Social Security tax rate Social Security limit COLA percentage Benefits percentage

ARC Predict  Detail Assumptions Promotions New Hires Terminations Lump Sum Payments Leave Without Pay Miscellaneous Actions

ARC Predict  Discoverer Reports Compensation and benefits totals to date Projected compensation and benefits through the end of the projected period Breakout of projected amounts (ex: terminations, new hires, etc)

New for FY 2011  SF-132 support Questions on format and amounts Review prior to OMB submission  New descriptions on SLA documents  Financial Plans and Reprogrammings Customized templates for submitting all budget loads and reprogrammings will be provided

I-Clicker Questions

What is your current process like for budget formulation ? a)We use excel (or other) spreadsheets to compute our annual budget b)We use an external system to formulate our annual budget c)Other

Would you be interested in an automated formulation system that feeds directly into Oracle? a)Yes b)No

If ARC developed and maintained a formulation system, which option would you prefer? a)I would like ARC’s budget shop to prepare the formulation exercises and present the results to my agency b)I would prefer to have access to the formulation system so I could enter my own assumptions and complete the exercises myself?

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