Base Budget Distribution Realignment: Often the base budget is out of alignment with the routine, daily operating expenses. You are encouraged to realign your base budget to align it with your actual experience and to best meet your needs. Redistributions you would like to make to your base budget will be accomplished by reviewing your BUDGET WORKSHEET REPORT(online Banner FBIBUDG).By using the Base Budget Distribution Worksheet you can realign your budgeted subaccount data. For example, you may need to add $500 to a subaccount 6001 because your spending patterns show that you use this subaccount every year. This would be entered as a positive $500. Correspondingly, a negative $500 would have to be entered in the subaccount line from which you are reallocating. Each Budget unit's base adjustments must net to zero. Please note that Academic departments must not reallocate from the 4027 Adjunct Faculty line. Likewise, this base realignment opportunity is focused on the operational expense portion of the budget; position actions require standard HR/Budget Office interaction. The completed Budget Worksheet Reports are due in the Budget Office by Friday, June 12th, 2014 to ensure changes to your base by 1 July

General Guidance

Salary and Wage Increases: Compensation increases are typically determined via the Commonwealth budget process and are communicated as part of the final approved University Budget and Operating Plan.

Student Wages: The student employee wage scale complies with the Federal minimum wage requirements. The Student Employment Wage is detailed in the attached Appendix.

Employee Benefit Adjustments: The overall employee benefit rate for full-time positions in FY 2014-15 will be 37.10%. A full schedule is included in the Appendix.

Pay Schedule for all Salary and Wage Positions: To assist you in your budget planning, the following details the pay schedule for salary and wage positions:

The part-time faculty and special pay for academic services subaccount code will correspond to the full-time pay schedule (6/10 - 6/9) for any full-time employees who are paid in this category for work that has been contracted beyond the scope of their full-time employment contract.

One-Time Fund Allocations: If you received any one-time (non-E&G) funding allocations in your budget, they will be posted to the respective budget pool within your individual budget unit (org) in July as a budget adjustment transaction (BD02).

Operating Base Budget: The approved base budget will be available on July 1 as the new operating budget. All base budgets will be represented by line item rather than pool account in the nonpersonal services, travel and equipment categories. This will enable you to manage your budget more efficiently, since you will be able to determine clearly the available balances within each expenditure account within your budget. Therefore, it is important that your budget represent accurately the expenses you plan to incur within each of the separate expenditure accounts within the nonpersonal services, travel and equipment categories, and you should take this opportunity to adjust your budget for the upcoming year. Your review of last fiscal year's actual expenditures as well as the current fiscal year experience will help you identify specific accounts requiring adjustment.

As you manage your budget throughout the fiscal year, it should be emphasized that budget adjustments to the nonpersonal services, travel and equipment accounts will be made at the pool level (For example: to move travel funds to equipment--you would increase 7999 and decrease 9899) the amount of shortage or overage in the pool will provide a starting point for the realignment of succeeding years base budgets. Adjustments to the personal services and all recovery categories will continue to be made at the line item.

The following instructions apply to Auxiliary Activities only.

• Commonwealth Auxiliary Interest Earnings: The expected yield on fund balances deposited with the State for Commonwealth Auxiliary units have been estimated will be revised in Banner operating as quarterly earnings are realized.
• Auxiliary Indirect Cost: The auxiliary indirect cost rate for FY 2014-2015 is based on 12.03% of the base expense. The Budget Office has made adjustments for indirect costs to subaccount code 5705.

Budget Distribution Worksheet

General Information

The worksheet is at Appendix A. Reproduce as many copies as you need. The worksheet is for base budget adjustments only. Please do not include one-time funds. Do not use pool account codes, i.e., 6999, 7999. The base budget will only accept detail subaccount codes, i.e., 6002, 7102. Look at the Budget Preparation Worksheet to find subaccount codes you now use or refer to the FTVACCT screen on Banner for a listing of the University's subaccounts. The Subaccount Code List is also available on this website. If you adjust temporary position wage, please provide the position number and amount of the budget increase/decrease. Specific Requirements:

• Designate your functional area as President's Area, Development, Academic Affairs, SEES, Administration & Finance, University Advancement, Research, Human Resources, or Intercollegiate Athletics. Also include on this line an identification of the requested action, i.e., Resource Summary Table name of budget item, reallocation, etc.
• Include the name and telephone number of the person who will be available to answer questions.
• Identify the organization code (budget unit) to be changed.
• Enter the applicable subaccount codes.
• Enter the amount of the change. Use parentheses to indicate reductions. All adjustments MUST net to zero.
• Enter the change in FTE to two decimal places. Use parentheses to indicate reductions.
• Briefly describe the adjustment.

The Budget Preparation Worksheet

Insight Budget Software Reports

Option 1: Download your base budget from the Insight Budget Tracking software (the CBB by Budget Code by Revenue/Expenditure Category by Subaccounts Report) into Excel. You will have your Base Budget by line item/subaccount. You can then add two columns in the spreadsheet: one for adjustments, and one for the resulting base. Remember the base adjustments must net to zero --- you can add $500 to one line as long as you subtract from another line. Note more Insight software training is being scheduled.

Option 2: Review your base budget via Banner FBIBUDG (To access this Banner Report see the upper left hand corner of the banner entry screen GO TO and type in "FBIBUDG." Per the screen shot below in the Budget ID row type in "15BUD". Tab down to the Organization and type in your budget unit number. Tab to Selection Criteria Key 1 and use the drop down menu to select Account, then "Control Page Down and you will have the Base Budget by subaccount over multiple banner pages. The first column entitled 16Base refers to the current Base budget which will "roll" into FY2016 Operating (OPAL) on July 1, 2015.

For Option 2 you can note the adjustments you desire utilizing one of the attached Budget Distribution templates (again recognizing that the adjustments must net to zero).