Jenzabar J1 Desktop and JICS Budget provide a collaborative tool for building and approving budgets. Budget Officers can create, review, distribute, update, and approve a budget within a secure and integrated environment. Jenzabar J1 Desktop and JICS Budget allow you to:
· Create, maintain, approve, and monitor your school's annual operating budget.
· Create a budget and distribute line items to component worksheets that can be delegated to users assigned to specific worksheet roles. These roles determine what capabilities the user will have permission to access.
· Utilize automatic notifications for budget events to keep selected stakeholders informed.
· View a 'big picture' of the budget using personalized budget profiles.
· Create various budgeting scenarios.
· Enter proposed amounts into worksheets based on automatically calculated formulas.
· Begin the budget process quickly by copying a prior year's budget amounts and its related worksheets and budget officer assignments.
· Export budget data to Excel for additional data manipulation.
· View historical data to the transaction detail level for use in forecasting future budgets.
· Add and access important attachments and comments facilitating easy collaboration between budget officers and providing important justification details in various formats.
· Easily submit, review, update, cancel, and approve or deny budget adjustments to board-approved budgets for review and approval.
· View any existing contact profile information for budget officers throughout the budget life cycle.
Capabilities vary according to whether a user is using J1 Desktop or JICS Budget, J1 Desktop Budget settings, and the role to which the user is assigned to a worksheet. For more information, see the Budget module online Help.