Operating Plan sheet

Overview

This sheet helps you clarify strategic budget objectives before making updates to a budget. It presents a questionnaire that lists the department's objectives and describe how any changes to the budget will support each objective. For example, you can use this for a SWAT analysis approach or whatever is most meaningful to your organization. The purpose of the planning questions is to capture higher level, salient points within the plan file to facilitate a discussion with the budget stakeholders such as department directors or vice presidents. You can review the questions with others by opening the plan file directly or running the Budget Plan Questions reportBudget Plan Questions report.

NOTE: The questions that display are determined and set up by your organization. If you have Administrator privileges, you can add or edit them in the Budget Assumptions driverBudget Assumptions driver, as needed.

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Completing plan questions

To complete plan questions:

  1. In this tab, do any of the following:
    • Answer the questions by entering content in as many rows as needed.

      NOTE: The content in the rows do not wrap, meaning that once you get to the end of the row, you need to continue entering content in the next row.

    • To add a line, double-click Double Click to Insert New Planning Lines.
  2. After you finish making changes, in the Main ribbon tab, click Save.