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Understanding Budget Reports

Understanding Budget Reports. Financial Services Division of Administration & Finance Sarah Song Director of Budget Operations (714)278-2304. Agenda. Chart of Accounts & Definitions Fiscal Year Calendar Budget components and processes Distributed Reports Budget Balance Available Report

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Understanding Budget Reports

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  1. Understanding Budget Reports Financial Services Division of Administration & Finance Sarah Song Director of Budget Operations (714)278-2304

  2. Agenda • Chart of Accounts & Definitions • Fiscal Year Calendar • Budget components and processes • Distributed Reports • Budget Balance Available Report • Other Reports • Questions & Answers

  3. Managing Departmental Funds What do we mean by an Account or chart fields? Which transactions flow into my department? How do I monitor and reconcile my financial activities? How do I validate and obtain my balances?

  4. Chart of Accounts • Chartfields • Account (6 characters numeric) • Fund (5 characters alphanumeric) • Department ID (5 characters numeric) • Program (4 numeric) • Class (5 alphanumeric) • Project (8 numeric) Chartfield String Chartfield String = Account + Fund + Department + Program + Class + Project

  5. Chartfield Definitions • Account • Captures the nature of financial transactions. It provides detail breakdown of Revenues and Expenditures. • Fund • Represents the source of money related to financial transactions. • Department ID • Identifies the organizational structure identified by campus. • Program • A set of ongoing general activities that need to be tracked. Values are assigned by the campus. • Class • Provides for any special cost reporting needs a division, department or other organizational unit may have that are not met by the campus-wide reporting values in other chartfields. • Project • Identifies a discrete set of activities. Further breakdown of Class or Account. Values are defined by division, department or other organizational units. https://mycsuf.fullerton.edu/psp/pfulprd/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=FUL_MY_INFORMATION_TAB

  6. Differences Between Various Chart Fields Departmental Financial Management Responsibility: Balancing at Department + Fund level • Mandatory chartfields • Account (6 characters numeric) • Fund (5 characters alphanumeric) • Department ID (5 characters numeric) • Optional chartfields • Program (4 numeric) – Leave Blank • Class (5 alphanumeric) – Extension of Dept • Project (8 numeric)

  7. FiscalCalendar • Different than calendar year • Reflects Fiscal Year It is important to become familiar with the fiscal year and accounting periods for each month

  8. Budget Components • Prior Year Carry-Forward Budget • Prior Year Encumbrance Budget • Initial Baseline Budget • New Fiscal Year Budget (Baseline & One-Time) • Budget Reductions • Budget Transfers • Other Budget Entries (ie. Allocation Order, SWAT Notice, Revenue Budgets, Capital Budgets, Compensation Increase, and etc)

  9. Revenue Budget Entry

  10. Monthly Standard Reports CMS Training Documentation and Tutorials http://www.fullerton.edu/cms/Training/docs/finance.html Distributed Report Matrix and the Samples http://www.fullerton.edu/cms/Finance/docs/Sample_FIS_Reports_Matrix.pdf List of Distributed Reports • Requisitions/P.O. Report • Expenditure Summary & Detail • Budget Allocation/Transfer • Budget Balance Available Report • Open Commitments • Security by Employee • Security by Department

  11. Access to Distributed Reports • Portal Log In • e-Content Tab

  12. Access to Distributed Reports Distributed Reports

  13. Budget Balance Available Report

  14. Budget Balance Available Report

  15. Budget Allocation and Transfer Report

  16. Budget Balance Available Report Budget Allocation and Transfer Report

  17. Encumbrance/Expenditure Reports Requisition/P.O. Detail Report and Requisition/P.O. Summary Report: Allows the department to view detailed or summarized information about Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders as of the reporting date. Expenditure Detail Report and Expenditure Summary Report: Allows the department to view detailed or summarized financial transactions by account code, fund code, program, class or project as of the reporting date.

  18. Requisition/P.O. Summary Report Expenditure Detail Report

  19. Query Tools My Queries – Ad-hoc (available only to Division Finance Coordinators)

  20. Questions & Answers

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