Education

Budget

Product Direction: CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting
(Budget)
114
Monday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Update

As the budgetary landscape continues to change with new trends, requirements and regulatory demands, CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting continues to evolve to stay ahead of the curve. This session identifies our short term goals and future plans, as well as provides a review of the product roadmap, new initiatives and programs that are offered to help you accomplish your organizational goals. This session also provides an update on recent upgrades and go-lives. Attend to hear what’s new in this client community.

Budgeting: Beyond Budget Development
(Budget)
124
Monday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

Monitoring actual expenditures and comparisons to budgets throughout the fiscal year is a vital component of budgeting. This session describes how organizations are utilizing CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting for more than just budget development and identifies how to consolidate financial information, run scenarios and reforecast dollars to help you make more effective decisions. We will explore examples of how to leverage the application for budget adjustments and amendments, historical trend analysis throughout the year and much more. 

Automating Processes with Budget Forms
(Budget)
134
Monday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

As organizations deal with challenges like staff reductions and shrinking budgets, it is more important than ever to find ways to gain efficiencies and save valuable time. New features and functions provided in CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting Budget Forms make this easier than ever. This session provides client examples to show how Budget Forms can help you automate processes, consolidate information and simplify setup. Dynamic text handling, enhanced audit capabilities and new calculation options are just a few of the features reviewed during this session.

Integrating Budget Information with Financials
(Budget, Financial)
144
Monday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

The ability to make effective budget decisions is dependent on having accurate financial information ready and available. This session discusses how to successfully manage data to and from CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting and CGI Advantage Financial Management. Learn how new features included in Release 3.9 can help to streamline the data process flows—consolidating financial information and reducing time and effort.

CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting 3.10: Features You Won’t Want to Live Without
(Budget)
214
Tuesday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Advanced

 With every new release, enhancements add new functionality, making the solution more powerful, flexible and user-friendly. Performance Budgeting Release 3.10 is no exception. Our most robust release to date includes new modules and features that significantly increase functionality and usability. This session focuses on upcoming enhancements, including the Chart of Account Alignment, Budget Form Multi-Tab capability and the FSQ Redesign. Learn how these enhancements will help your organization accomplish more comprehensive and more efficient budgeting.

How Performance Budgeting Dashboard Empowers Users to Make Effective Decisions
(Budget, Business Intelligence)
224
Tuesday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting dashboards bring crucial financial, position and performance data to your fingertips, providing you with information on which data is being impacted to enable quick reaction. This session describes how dashboards can be effectively used to improve decision-making. Identify which standard dashboards are available and learn tips and helpful hints to configure them to maximize effectiveness. In addition, client examples will illustrate how dashboards are incorporated into business processes.

Coordinating Position Control between CGI Advantage Human Resource Management (HRM) and Performance Budgeting
(Budget, HR/Payroll)
233
Tuesday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Close integration between your organization's HRM and Performance Budgeting systems can provide significant benefit. This session discusses the benefits and impact of housing positions and employees in both your Position Control and Salary and Benefits Forecasting Subsystem. Learn how to configure Position Control to facilitate loading position and employee data into the Salary and Benefits Forecasting Subsystem. Also learn the process of timing and applying the budget changes to your Position Control system. Client presenters share their experience integrating these two systems along with lessons learned and goals achieved.

Gain Efficiencies Utilizing New and Improved Workflow in CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting
(Budget)
234
Tuesday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

Performance Budgeting workflow can help organizations create a more comprehensive and efficient budget process. This session provides client examples to illustrate how workflow can help more accurately track budget requests, move through the budget process more effectively and provide audit capability to easily track and reconcile changes. Learn about the new workflow capability included in Release 3.9 related to reassigning a budget request and workflow administration privileges.

Coordinating Salary and Benefits Forecasting Between CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting and Human Resource Management (HRM)
(Budget, HR/Payroll)
244
Tuesday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Close integration between your organization's HRM and Performance Budgeting systems provides better salary and benefit cost forecasting by incorporating employee data. This session discusses the timing, data set-up and other considerations for implementing this integration and examines sending position changes to your HR system to reduce manual entry. Client examples will highlight the benefits and lessons learned during the integration process and demonstrate using the actual employee data to perform varying forecasts.

How to Build More Effective Decision Making Processes with CGI Advantage Performance Budgeting
(Budget, Business Intelligence)
254
Tuesday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

Shrinking revenues, limited public funds and increasing regulatory demands make it difficult to determine the right budget choices. In this environment, it is critical to ensure the right data is readily available to the right people at the right time. In this session, representatives from Wake County, NC will share how they have used innovative reporting techniques to consolidate all of the components of the budget process together as an effective decision making tool. Join us as they share how their configuration of system functionality within Performance Budgeting generates management-level reports that have helped create greater insight into budget data and stronger analytic capabilities to enable more effective decisions.