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Budgeting and Forecasting

Establish unlimited budgets for forecasting and planning of both time and expense.

Enable central administrative planning through time@work Maintenance and/or enable Employees to plan their own time or their team’s time through the browser-based Professional Services Workbench.

Central Administrative Planning

Plan employees’ allocations to projects (including Holiday).

Plan projects’ requirements for staff (by role and/or employee).

Plan employee and other expenses by Project.

Compare Actuals (from Timesheets) with Forecasts and Plans.

Calculate financial implications of plans including fees, costs and departmental cross charges.

systems@work’s budgeting tools are configurable to your needs. Using Budget Profiles you can:

  • Monitor and update several budgets at once, and copy between them
  • Plan Employees’ time on Projects (if you are a team leader)
  • Plan each Project singly (if you are a project manager)
  • Scroll forwards and backwards in time
  • Plan by Day, Timesheet Period, or Accounting Period
  • Plan in Minutes, Hours or Days, or partial units.
  • Use Allocation Profiles to search for Employees on the basis of Skills. Roles, Availability and other criteria (see Resource Planning).
  • Allocate Employees to Projects at configurable levels of certainty (see Resource Planning).
  • Import or Export plans to MS Project

Budget Profile Worksheet

Use systems@work’s standard reporting tools to compare Actuals with Budgets, or Budgets with Budgets or both.

Professional Services Workbench

Enable Diary Maintenance for each Employee, enabling him or her to update his or her own and any centrally defined allocations to Projects.

Enable Diary Control for team, departmental, or divisional leaders so that each may plan the allocations of his group.

Diary maintenance in PSW