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Introducing UAccess Planning
Adaptive Planning Presented by Brian Berrellez
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What will be discussed in this session?
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What is UAccess Planning?
Budgeting v. Planning The Adaptive Suite Our Current Systems A Bird’s Eye View Instances Structure Support & Participation
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What is UAccess Planning?
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Planning UA Planning UAccess Planning Adaptive Planning Adaptive
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UAccess Planning offers flexible budgeting and planning with collaboration in the cloud using system-connected spreadsheets
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UAccess Planning offers flexible budgeting and planning with collaboration in the cloud using system-connected spreadsheets
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Budgeting versus Planning
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Three points to consider
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Scope Approach Term
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Scope Approach Term
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Foresight versus sight
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Foresight versus sight
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Scope Approach Term
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Strategy versus tactics
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Strategy Aspirations Where What How
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Strategy versus tactics
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Tactics
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Scope Approach Term
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Short-term management versus long-term
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Short-term versus long-term management
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Short-term versus long-term management
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Scope Approach Term Budgeting versus Planning
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Budgeting
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Budgeting
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tells you where you are today,
Budgeting tells you where you are today, assists with tactics of money management, maintains short-term financial health
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Budgeting
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Planning
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Planning
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tells you where you are going, assists in strategy with resources,
Planning tells you where you are going, assists in strategy with resources, empowers long-term financial goals
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Planning
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UAccess Planning offers flexible budgeting and planning with collaboration in the cloud using system-connected spreadsheets
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Flexibility
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Flexibility means we are nimble:
able to quickly change and collaborate in order to strategically progress and grow
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UAccess Planning offers flexible budgeting and planning with collaboration in the cloud using system-connected spreadsheets
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We need to collaborate, but much resides in disconnected spreadsheets
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UAccess Planning offers flexible budgeting and planning with collaboration in the cloud using system-connected spreadsheets
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UAccess Planning is like having shared spreadsheets in the cloud
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Cloud-based means available anywhere
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empower collaboration, keeping teams on the same page
Sharing abilities empower collaboration, keeping teams on the same page
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UAccess Planning offers flexible budgeting and planning with collaboration in the cloud using system-connected spreadsheets
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Spreadsheets are automatically connected to each other and to our systems
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This means No more broken links or errors in spreadsheets
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Spreadsheets are automatically connected to each other and to our systems
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Reduce or end shadow bookkeeping
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UAccess Planning offers flexible budgeting and planning with collaboration in the cloud using system-connected spreadsheets
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An entire platform of tools
The Adaptive Suite An entire platform of tools
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Part of a suite of tools
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Planning Reporting OfficeConnect Planning for Excel Discovery
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Planning Reporting OfficeConnect Planning for Excel
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Planning
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Planning Reporting OfficeConnect Planning for Excel
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Reporting
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More than just capturing information AP can report on that information
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Planning Reporting OfficeConnect Planning for Excel
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Office Connect
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Doesn’t just operate through the website It can connect with Microsoft Office
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This fuels your spreadsheets, documents, and presentations with information from all that has been captured by AP
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Planning Reporting OfficeConnect Planning for Excel
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Planning for Excel
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Doesn’t just operate through the website You can enter information to AP through Excel and vice-versa
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Planning Reporting OfficeConnect Planning for Excel
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UAccess Planning will work in concert with our other UAccess systems
Our Current Systems UAccess Planning will work in concert with our other UAccess systems
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The Budget (RBC) System
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UAccess Planning does not replace the Budget (RBC) System
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The Budget System will still be the final System of Record for budgets UAccess Planning will serve as a supportive mechanism for units
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UAccess Analytics
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UAccess Planning does not replace UAccess Analytics
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UAccess Analytics will always provide more detail and serve as the primary System of Record UAccess Planning will provide additional information like commitments, plans, grant periods, and other adjustments
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UAccess Planning does not replace any other official system in any way It provides a supplemental collaborative space for more localized reporting
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What is UAccess Planning?
Budgeting v. Planning The Adaptive Suite Our Current Systems A Bird’s Eye View Instances Structure Support & Participation
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Bird’s Eye View A Brief Introduction
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Instances or Spaces
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Planning Academic Grants
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Primary Goals for All Instances Flexible tracking and reporting Planning and encumbrances beyond the fiscal year for operations and personnel Forecasting and projections
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Advantages for All Instances Budgeting in UAccess Planning is like sharing your Excel spreadsheets to collaborate as a team while having data from UAccess automatically included
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Planning Academic Grants
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Planning
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Primary Goals Institutional sight and foresight on all funds budgets and drivers Baseline for multi-year plans and reviews Cross-campus standard
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The Planning instance is used for the Multi-Year Planning process guided by the Budget Office
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Advantages Stay on the same page with the Provost Maintain a high level view of your units Be able to have high-level cross-campus discussions
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Planning Academic Grants
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Academic
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Primary Goals All funds budgeting and forecasting of revenues and expenses Entry and tracking of planned expenses, planned personnel, and commitments Budget-to-Actuals using all data sources
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The Academic instance is used for budgeting and forecasting for academic departments and colleges
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Budgeting in the Academic instance does not replace the Budget (RBC) System
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Advantages Report anywhere Use Drivers Modify your balances Plan ahead Flexible Hierarchy
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The detail of your budgets is always available anywhere and is reportable
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Use drivers to estimate your revenues to provide better forecasting
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Drivers such as those in RCM that affect how much revenue RCUs (colleges) may receive
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Use your “planned expenses” or “commitments” to affect your bottom line balances
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Plan for future employees, changes to existing employees, and forecast with confidence
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Flexible hierarchy allows divisions within departments Budgets and expenses by Project Code, Subaccount, or Unofficial Org
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Budget-to-Actuals analyses
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Recap on Advantages of Academic Instance Report anywhere Use Drivers Modify your balances Plan ahead Flexible Hierarchy
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Planning Academic Grants
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Grants & Contracts
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Primary Goals Bridge pre-award and post-award by inputting budget results from pre-award Planned expenses and personnel and encumbrances beyond the fiscal year Reports by grant periods/years
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Advantages The Grants & Contracts instance has many of the same advantages as the Academic
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Primary Advantage Driven by your Grant’s budget periods and years, not the standard fiscal year
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More on this when we talk Reports
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Review of Instances Planning Academic Grants
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Structure
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Instances Recap Sheets & Hierarchy (Levels) Reports
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Instances Sheets & Hierarchy (Levels) Reports
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Instances
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Instances are separate spaces serving a particular audience or purpose
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Instances Sheets & Hierarchy (Levels) Reports
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Sheets & Hierarchy
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Sheets are where you go to enter data
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Sheets are specifically available to particular instances
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Here’s the full screen when in a sheet
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Enter information just like in Excel
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You can expand or narrow the amount of data/rows in a sheet by selecting particular orgs or accounts
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Levels > Hierarchy > Organization > Accounts
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Select your organization or account number
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Instances Sheets & Hierarchy (Levels) Reports
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Reports
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Many reports will be available and you can build your own
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Example of Available Balance by Object
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Flexibility allows reporting by your grant years or periods or by the standard fiscal year
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Budgets by Fiscal Year and Org
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Instances Sheets & Hierarchy (Levels) Reports
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What is UAccess Planning?
Budgeting v. Planning The Adaptive Suite Our Current Systems A Bird’s Eye View Instances Structure Support & Participation
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Support & Participation
Support Structure and Rollout Plans
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Find More Information: Website A Little About Development Who Supports Planning Get Support
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Find More Information: Website A Little About Development Who Supports Planning Get Support
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planning.budgetoffice.arizona.edu
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Find More Information: Website A Little About Development Who Supports Planning Get Support
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Developed with cross-campus collaboration
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College of Engineering Eller College of Management Office of Global Initiatives College of Agriculture & Life Sciences College of Education College of Humanities College of Science
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Residence Life University of Arizona Bookstores College of Medicine – Tucson College of Medicine – Phoenix Cancer Center College of Nursing RDI Business Center
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Academic Affairs & Provost Budget Office
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Find More Information: Website A Little About Development Who Supports Planning Get Support
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Who supports UAccess Planning?
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Steering Committee
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Core Project Team
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Names
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Core Project Team Includes Our Tech Team
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Barry Brummund Zach Hoffman Seth Gilchrist
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Additional Team Members for Academic & Auxiliary Development
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Susan Richards Toni Alexander Brian Pierson Nicholle Zarkower Sylvia Xu Ginger Rogers Judy Apostolik
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Additional Team Members for Grants & Contracts Development
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Carol A Evans Chris Duggen Dorothy Ashton Jason Von Fange Norma Montano Margo Sallet Nancy Ramos
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Find More Information: Website A Little About Development Who Supports Planning Get Support
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Already participating? Join the Adaptive Planning UAccess Community
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UAccess Community > Forums > Budget > UAccess Planning
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forums. community. uaccess. arizona
forums.community.uaccess.arizona.edu/ c/uaccess-budget/uaccess-planning
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Find More Information: Website A Little About Development Who Supports Planning Get Support Not participating?
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Want to Participate? Point of Contact
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We’re still in the pilot phase, so participation is limited You can request to join!
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Lisa Rulney lisa.rulney@arizona.edu
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Recap
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What is UAccess Planning?
Budgeting v. Planning The Adaptive Suite Our Current Systems A Bird’s Eye View Instances Structure Support & Participation
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Questions?
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