Budgeting or Systemic Leadership

Budgeting: Technology, Trends, Software Selection, and Implementation

Author: Nils H Rasmussen

Essential Budget Planning for the 21st Century Corporation

Today's corporations are more competitive, dynamic, and, consequently, more powerful and successful than ever before. As a result, the days when corporate budgeting was merely an obligatory, routine process of estimating the coming year's revenues and expenses have long ended. Successful corporations are constantly improving their ability to predict their future operations and their related resource requirements, enabling them to adjust their plans as needed and stay ahead of the competition. Not only does this heighten the importance of the budgeting and planning process, but it also changes the traditional roles of spreadsheets, legacy budget systems, and software created in-house. Budgeting shows corporations how to achieve and maintain their edge through modern budgeting systems and the use of good budgeting software. This book provides comprehensive guidance through the range of considerations that are crucial to streamlining the budget planning process:
* What corporations should be looking for when buying or building a new budgeting solution
* How to select the right budgeting solution from the field of vendors
* How to successfully implement a new budgeting solution
* How to fully utilize the Web

. . . plus helpful lists and questionnaires, and interviews with managers from leading companies who have effectively created internal processes and implemented software solutions. Equip your corporation to excel in the twenty-first century with the tools and information offered in this invaluable resource.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Budgeting and Forecasting Overview	1
Ch. 1	Budgeting Today: Overview and Trends	3
Ch. 2	Budgeting Processes and Approaches	17
Ch. 3	Budgeting Methods	29
Ch. 4	Popular Budgeting Reports and Ratios	41
Pt. 2	Budgeting Software: Technology Trends and Functionality	63
Ch. 5	Technology Trends	65
Ch. 6	Functionality Offered by Modern Budgeting Software	79
Ch. 7	What Will Future Budgeting Software Offer?	93
Ch. 8	Budgeting Software Buyer's Guide	103
Ch. 9	Using Excel as a Budgeting Tool	109
Pt. 3	Software Evaluation and Selection	123
Ch. 10	Selecting a System	125
Ch. 11	Software Evaluation: Factors to Consider	133
Ch. 12	The New Alternative: Outsourcing	143
Pt. 4	Software Implementation	149
Ch. 13	Systems Implementation: Project Planning	151
Ch. 14	Detailed Implementation	159
Pt. 5	Interviews	175
Ch. 15	Interviews	177
	App. A: Simple Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement (Sales/Demo Process)	215
	App. B: Sample RFP	219
	App. C: Software Candidate Evaluation and Rating Sheet	241
	App. D: Sample License Agreement	243
	App. E: Sample Support Plan/Agreement	249
	App. F: Sample Consulting Agreement	253
	App. G: Sample Implementation Project Plan	259
	App. H: Software and Vendor List with Web Addresses	267
	Glossary	273
	Index	285

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Systemic Leadership: Enriching the Meaning of Our Work

Author: Kathleen E Allen

Systemic Leadership examines how technology has fostered an era of collaboration, connectedness, and networked knowledge that demands a new systemic approach to leadership and change in organizations. This book offers four strategies for organizational leadership to lead, learn, relate, and influence change. Allen and Cherrey seamlessly integrate these strategies as a guiding light in the complex and dynamic world of management and higher education administration. Of interest to college leaders, managers, and student affairs practitioners in higher education, for-profit and non-profit organizations. Co-published with American College Personnel Association and National Association for Campus Activities.

Author Biography: Kathleen E. Allen is Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland's Academy of Leadership, and was formerly Vice President of Student Development at the College of St. Benedict, Minnesota. Cynthia Cherrey is Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and a Clinical Associate Professor at the University Of Southern California.