BUDGETING BY ADDING NEW POSITIONS

Access to any Home Organization, related account and/or employee information is based on your current authorization level in BDS's SECURITY TABLES. If you're having problems updating/viewing selected accounts or employees, inform your supervisor and request their written approval giving you access to your TAMS Organization's information. If you've already submitted written authorization to the Budget Office and you're encountering problems updating/viewing selected information, please contact the Budget Office at 865-5353 (off campus) or at extension #5353 (on campus) for additional assistance.

There are three(3) different methods used to budget salary information in BDS. You may use one method or a combination of all three methods, depending on the type and amount of information you have available to you.

The three(3) salary budgeting methods are:

  1. Budgeting by EMPLOYEE NUMBER (social security number).
  2. Budgeting by ACCOUNT NUMBER within your TAMS Organization.
  3. Budgeting by adding/creating NEW POSITIONS.

This section primarily addresses Budgeting by adding NEW POSITIONS.

3. Budgeting By Adding NEW POSITIONS:

To begin you will need the new employee's EMPLOYEE NUMBER (social security number, in most cases) and/or how many VACANT/GROUP positions you wish to add/create. Now move your cursor to the SCREEN => field:

- Type 300 and press ENTER/RETURN.

You will see Screen 300 - EMPLOYEE INFORMATION screen (See Fig. H-1, pg. 8-1). Screen 300 is used to review a position's current PAF information in the BDS and/or PPS (Payroll/Personnel System) database. However, only the BDS database can be updated on this screen.

You can directly enter a new employee/position (position) into the BDS database. There are two(2) ways of entering position's into BDS:

            A. The employee currently exists on the PPS database.

            B. Enter a position identification number directly in BDS.

Note: You won't be able to budget the position's salary until you've reviewed Screen 300's information, changed the "X" in the APPROVAL: field to "Y", received a POSITION CONTROL number from the Budget Office and press F9 to update the position's record in the BDS database. If your intent is to not budget the person for this FY, you must change the "X" in the APPROVAL field to "N" and press F9 to update the record.

For a detailed explanation of the above employee/position BDS updates, refer to the Screen 300 (EMPLOYEE INFORMATION) information found on pages 8-2 through 8-9, in the SCREEN FAMILIARIZATION section of this manual.

Once you've reviewed the position information and made any necessary changes, move your cursor to the APPROVAL: field:

- Type the letter y (yes) over the letter X in the APPROVAL: field.

- If you do not plan to budget this employee/position, type the letter n (no) over the letter X in the      APPROVAL: field.

- Press F9 to update the BDS database

This indicates to the BDS SECURITY TABLES that you've completed your review of Screen 300's position information. Now:

- Press F11 (GO TO 400) to move to Screen 400.

You will see Screen 400 - EMPLOYEE SALARY UPDATE screen (See Fig. I-1, pg. 9-1). One(1) position record at a time is displayed on your screen. The position's entire account distribution will be displayed, if this is your TAMS Organization. Otherwise, only the accounts you are authorized to update/view will be displayed on the screen. The updateable information will appear highlighted on the screen. There may be up to eight(8) account/natural accounts records for each position on one(1) page. If the account distribution is on two(2) pages, you may view the second page by pressing F8 (DOWN). Pressing F7 (UP) will return you to the previous page of the salary information record. For each position salary record, the CURRENT YEAR SALARY and NEXT YEAR SALARY information is displayed.

The CURRENT YEAR salary information consists of the ORIG (ORIGINAL) budgeted salary, CUR ANN (CURRENT ANNUAL) salary and the PAF% (PAYROLL ACTION FORM PERCENT) distribution to your selected account. The ORIG salary is the approved budgeted salary for the current fiscal year. The CUR ANN salary is the current payroll salary. You cannot directly update the CUR ANN salary information in BDS. The Payroll database updates the CUR ANN salary information every time Payroll downloads into BDS. Also, the CUR ANN salary may differ from ORIG salary only if changes were approved and made during the current fiscal year. The PAF% is the distribution of total salary to the specific account and object code.

The NEXT YEAR salary information shows future budgeted salary. The PROPOSED salary is the budgeted salary for the new fiscal year. FRINGE automatically calculates based on salary amount, the applicable federal and state laws and the position's years of employment. Under this category, the FRS and PAF %'s, and where appropriate the PER HOUR field, automatically calculates if you use the PROPOSED BUDGET AMOUNT and/or the SALARY CHANGE % salary budgeting methods.

There are four(4) different methods used to budget NEXT YEAR salary on this screen. You may use one or a combination of methods depending on the type and amount of information you have available. A position's future salary may be entered:

            1.) As a total PROPOSED BUDGET AMOUNT,

            2.) As a Percent Increase/Decrease in SALARY CHANGE,

            3.) As a hourly rate PER HOUR and/or

            4.) Manually.

For a detailed explanation of the above salary budgeting methods, refer to the Screen 400 (EMPLOYEE SALARY UPDATE) information found on pages 9-3 through 9-10, in the SCREEN FAMILIARIZATION section of this manual.

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