"Graduating from Excel to Purpose-Built Software"

In this eBook you will learn:
  • How John A. Logan College and San Juan College transitioned from Excel to a next-generation budgeting system, including:
  • Critical considerations throughout the software selection process
  • Criteria for purchase justification, along with the top 5 institutional benefits
  • Financial and business outcomes within both institutions
  • A guide to best-practice budgeting software
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"Top Ten Benefits of Responsibility Centered Management"

In this eBook you will learn:
  • A strategic approach to resource management, allocation, and planning
  • Greater focus on outcomes – from operational and financial to educational improvements
  • Better alignment with the institution’s strategic plan and execution against objectives
  • Improved engagement, involvement and ownership from faculty and staff
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"Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls of Collaborative Budgeting "

In this eBook you will learn:
  • How the benefits of a collaborative budgeting approach far outweigh the challenges, such as:
  • Increased quality of forecasts
  • Better results – with budgets built by the subject matter experts
  • A culture of teamwork and trust – vital elements of organizational success
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"Employee Engagement as a Business Strategy"

In this eBook, you will learn:
  • Published evidence supporting employee engagement as a business strategy
  • Recommended guidelines and approach for effective engagement
  • How to employ collaborative budgeting as an engagement and communication strategy
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"Budgeting to Strategy and Making Budgeting Strategic"

 In this eBook you will learn:
  • The role and value importance of utilizing critical thinking in the overall budget process.
  • Why communication is essential to a collaborative process and how you can improve communication in your budget process.
  • The role of technology in budgeting to strategy – and the bottom-line value of improving the user experience for department heads and staff
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"Collaborative Higher Education Budgeting in the Cloud"

In this eBook, you will learn:

  • How providing more transparency to the budget process will improve engagement with department heads – and better support the institution’s strategy
  • Tips for implementing Collaborative Budgeting: what works…and what doesn’t
  • The role of technology in collaborative budgeting – and the bottom-line value of improving the user experience for faculty and staff
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"15 Things That You Can't Do in Excel Budgeting (But Should)"

In this eBook, you will learn:

  • The inherent limitations of a two-dimensional spreadsheet – including the burden that results in manual data management… and the most common… potential killer errors.
  • Acceptance, usability and lack of flexibility issues for end-users with limited knowledge of Excel and the budgeting process.
  • The minimal required functionality for effective budget preparation, review, approval and reporting and the implications of not having these requirements on your results.
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