Configuration

• Flexible in level of managers within organization who are involved, and in lines of business under each

• Flexible list of cost centers, and other attributes of managerial groups

• List of staffing categories to be reported, with benefits burdens and cost-of-living increases set independently for each

• Flexible in level of business units within enterprise who can independently view their share of the budget

• List of consortia of business units for shared solutions (costs automatically divided among members)

• List of checkbooks ("colors" of money) to track different sources of funding

• List of enterprise strategic initiatives to view alignment of products/services

• List of high-level product sets (categories) to summarize budget data for client review

• List of priority levels, from certain to speculative, to view various budget scenarios

• International currencies automatically converted

Management inputs

• List of catalog items (products and services), and appropriate unit for each

• List of units (price per what) and whether or not each comes with direct costs, comes complete with all project-team costs, and external outsourcing costs for overflow work

• List of deliverables (specific "sales" of catalog items to specific clients, including those sold to clients, to the enterprise, to peer managers within the department, and to departmental overhead; for each, data include project code, priority, forecasted units, billable hours, direct costs, cost pools for indirect costs, and revenues

• People and their compensation costs

• Staffing strategy, including how many of each type of staff to hire and unbillable time set aside for sustenance activities

• External indirect costs to be spread over all or a targetted subset of the deliverables

• Cost pools by which to spread incoming costs from peer managers