Develop, manage and forecast your budgets with FAST
Utilize both centralized and decentralized reporting to help your various organizational teams view and edit numerous budget scenarios, forecasts and multi-year plans for their department.
Create and Manage Budgets
Create unlimited Budgets and Planning scenarios
Comprehensive Reporting
Use our existing reporting structures or build your own
Automated Benefits
Salary information can be automatically encumbered with benefits to pooled or decentralized accounts
Data Connections
Data can flow to and from multiple sources
Forecasting
Create forecasts by month or quarter with comparisons, or multi-year forecasting for future years including capital
Create and Manage Budgets
Create unlimited Budgets and Planning scenarios
Comprehensive Reporting
Use our existing reporting structures or build your own
Automated Benefits
Salary information can be automatically encumbered with benefits to pooled or decentralized accounts
Data Connections
Data flows to and from multiple sources
Forecasting
Create forecasts by month or quarter with comparisons, or multi-year forecasting for future years including capital
FAST budget and forecasting
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Use Reporting and Automation features to enable accurate and quicky entry for your decentralized Budget Transfers, integration to your Human Resources ERP system, excel import features and various data entry options.
Departments can access their budgets and scenarios at numerous reporting levels from summary reports to detailed transactions.
FLAC saves time by providing information necessary for monitoring and communicating faculty and contract workload levels.
No more passing spreadsheets around campus. FAST allows for online departmental collaboration when building faculty workload budgets and analyzing Expected vs. Actual totals.
Single view: Integrates Faculty, Course, and Human Resources information together in one easy-to-use interface.
Flexible: Allows you to use your baseline ERP to the extent you choose, and supplement that with FAST data entry forms.
Forecast enrollment, tuition, and workload from both the student and budget perspective, then easily compare those forecasts to actuals. You can also track tuition and fees from Finance to Student AR.
No more passing spreadsheets around campus. FAST allows for online departmental collaboration when building faculty workload budgets and analyzing Expected vs. Actual totals.
Extensive course planning functionality: Get a head start on planning out your course schedule for upcoming terms, and easily push out that information with various department chairs so they can propose their own changes. Proposed changes can optionally be routed through custom approval queues.
Course Revenue and Expense Forecasting: Create annual course revenue/expense and enrollment forecasting for strategic and budgeting purposes.
Projections: Generate revenue and expense projections using both granular and high-level scenarios for as many years into the future as you like.
Keep track of budgets by month, quarter or annually.
Send transfers for multiple approval before getting finalized and completed.
Load and manage Position Budgets and coding distribution directly in FAST and sync that information not the ERP system.
Keep your eyes on various data elements, such as positions, employees, dollars, and FTE.
Utilize Student Enrolment Forecasting and Faculty Planning data to assist in developing budgets and scenarios.
FAST budget and forecasting
A better way to forecast your budgets
The FAST Budget and Forecasting application allows for both centralized and decentralized budget development, management, and forecasting.
Budget Development
Create multiple budget scenarios to track Revenue and Tuition, Salary and Benefits, and Operational expenses. Provides "What if?" planning and approval workflow.
Budget Transfers
Decentralize the creation of budget transfers to support various levels of organizational approvals, ensuring proper spending authorization and completion.
Forecast
Forecast modelling that includes integrated actuals, budget and forecast data that can provide insights into current and future fiscal positions. Perform long-term planning for budgets and capital for multiple years into the future.
Productivity with Every Module
FAST Productivity Tools that help you maximize your ERP investment.
Development Toolkit: Easily build your own Warehouse, Reports and Data Entry pages.