Budget Master
Benefits of Budget Master
- Saves time on budget setting
- Produces figures you can trust
- Aids future planning
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The Budget Setting System for the Health Sector
Budget setting in the NHS is an annual exercise involving hundreds of staff hours. Many Trusts use spreadsheets developed in-house for the calculation of budgets, relying on multiple linking and complicated formulae.
Our experience, whilst working with a number of clients, has shown that these often hinder, rather than assist the process, for a number of reasons, including:
- Formulae are often copied incorrectly
- Subtotals miss vital data
- Moving staff is a real chore: cutting, pasting, inserting, deleting, amending and checking formulae
- Achieving a balance is an afternoon’s work, usually every afternoon!
- Queries cannot be answered easily
- Management reports cannot be printed
It is clear that the finance professional needs a robust budget setting system that will facilitate the rapid production and revision of budgets. The system should take care of the calculation while the accountant negotiates the budget with the budget holder.
Budget Master is the premier, easy-to-use budget setting system specifically developed for the NHS and the finance professional responsible for the preparation of budgets.
We believe that a budget setting system should support the accountant rather than the accountant supporting the budget setting system.
Budget Master’s Key Features:
- Pay budget calculation based upon individual members of staff
- Calculates the effects of incremental drift
- Full support for payroll enhancements and allowances
- Designed to accommodate the “Agenda for Change”
- Facilitates part-year change of staff grades
- Non pay and income budget entry
- Year-end roll forward with journal facility for CIPs, Inflation, etc.
- Comprehensive suite of high quality reports with export links to Microsoft® Office™
- Reporting levels based upon Directorate, Department, Account groups, Budget Manager and Finance Manager
- Full budget analysis by Fixed/SemiFixed/Variable and Direct/Indirect/Overhead
- Data import facility - Excel™ CSV or cut and paste with data validation routines
- Comprehensive modelling facility allows multiple ‘what-if’ scenarios such as change to pay scales, allowances, NI and superannuation without changing the current project
- Easy-to-use interface using familiar Windows® features, requiring little training
- Full multi-user Client / File server system
- Full data encryption and password control to prevent unauthorised access to sensitive data
- True Microsoft Windows 9x, NT®, 2000 system developed in Microsoft Access 97.
- Telephone help desk
- Context sensitive help
- Comprehensive user manual and demo data
Minimum System Requirements:
- Intel® Pentium® or higher compatible PC
- 16 MB RAM
- SVGA Display
- 60 MB free hard-disk space
- Windows 9x, NT4, 2000
- Multi-user access requires a compatible network
To find out more call 0845 054 0066 or email enquires@pscal.com
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