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Collaborative PlanningPrincipal Investigator

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Contents

Collaborative Planning................................................................................1Logging In...................................................................................................1Navigation...................................................................................................2Enquiring.....................................................................................................4View............................................................................................................5Outline view and Links................................................................................6Exporting to MS-Excel .......................................................................9Appendix 1 – Chart of Accounts.................................................................11


Revision history

Version Date Summary of changes Author1.0 26/11/10 Original A Fletcher1.1 17/01/11 Added notes on chart of account A Fletcher1.2 24/11/11 Updated screen dumps for additional info and

how to change years for drill down to transactions

A Fletcher


Principal Investigator Collaborative Planning

Collaborative Planning

Logging InURL http://j03s09app.cen.brad.ac.uk:7050/cp

Collaborative Planning is a budgeting, forecasting and reporting tool. Initially the University will use Collaborative Planning to view and report on research grants and external funded projects, actual, commitment and variance information, and provide monthly management reports.The data held in Collaborative Planning is updated from e5 daily.1. Open the Collaborative Planning web page to display the login screen.2. User name: enter your collaborative planning user name. This is case sensitive and is

usually your Novell user name in capital letters.3. Password: enter your collaborative planning password. This is case sensitive.

You may be required to change your password the first time you login. Enter your new password and click Change Password.

4. Your Collaborative Planning workbench will be displayed. If at the first login you have not

changed your password, you should click on My Account to change it. This is shown on the right hand side of the CP tool bar

Logging OffClick Logoff at the top right of the workbench and then close your browser.

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Navigation

Tool Name Description

Workbench Returns the user to the workbench and to the highest element that the user has access to.

Main menu Displays the main menu.

Communications

Function that allows a user to view massages from other users. Message can contain reports or a collection of reports called a report pack.

My Account Allows a user to change their password.

Logout Logout of Collaborative Planning

Help Opens the Collaborative Planning help.

ModelsA model defines what data will be displayed and how it will be displayed. Different models are displayed as tabs at the top left of the workbench. Click the tab to move from one model to another.

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Click on My Account to change password


In the above example there are 3 models shown: Externally Funded Projects CC Shows the current financial position for Externally

Financed Projects by Cost CentreExternally Funded Projects by PI As above but grouped by Principal InvestigatorManagement Reporting Shows the financial position for a school, division or cost

centre in the same format as the monthly management accounts.

You will only be able to see the models which you have been given access to.

When you log into collaborative planning you will see the highest point of the model hierarchy that you have permission to see. You can click the hierarchy to drill down. In the example above the highest part of the hierarchy we have permission to see is UB – University of Bradford. The small coloured squares and status information can be ignored as this relates to budget setting which is not in use on these enquiry models.



EnquiringClick on the highest point of the hierarchy to go down to the next level and continue clicking until reaching the point on the hierarchy that you wish to enquire on:

ReviewClick the point on the hierarchy and click Review to display the default view for the enquiry. The first time you review a model you may be presented with a pop up box headed ‘Maintain Profiles’ with a list of views available. If this shows, highlight one of the views and click ‘OK’ The view below shows the Balance View enquiry which shows the balance available for each project

The columns on this form give the following information:Budget: The agreed budget per the contractPY Actual: Prior year’s additional income and expenditure


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Click on review at the appropriate point on the hierarchy


TY Actual: This year’s additional income and expenditureManual Commitments: Non purchase order commitments such as salary commitments and overheads PO Commitments: Outstanding purchase ordersBalance: Balance availableStart Date: Start Date of the Grant – (2050-01-01 if no date is held on e5)End Date: End Date of the Grant - (2049-31-12 if no date is held on e5)Grant Title:

Note: Income is shown as negative (in brackets) and expenditure is shown as positive. A negative figure (in brackets) in the Balance column means that the project is overspent.

View

ViewA view determines the columns of data and calculations that are displayed; within a model you can have different views. To select a different view, click on the View drop down box to the left of ‘Profiles’.


Click here to change the view


Outline view and Links

Outline ViewTo expand the information displayed, click the plus. Alternatively use the numbered list which will expand to that level. To expand all levels click A.

CP ToolbarThe left handside of the CP toolbar shows the structure you have followed to view the data. You can click a section of this bar to return to that part of the structure. In the above example; /UB/P. Click P to return to the list of grant holders within Planning Unit P (CS).The buttons on the right handside are explained on page 2.

Tip: Click the View Resize columns to automatically resize all the columns to the best fit.


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Click A to display all levels

Click here to return to earlier part of structure


Transaction drill down – Externally Funded Projects by PI ModelTo view the transactional data which constitute the balances you must use one of the views named CC View Drill Down’ and highlight a cell at the lowest level. You can only drill down to see transactions in the TY Actual column (this year’s actuals). To see the transactions right click the cell and choose Finance system cell data.

If you get an error message ‘Can’t drill down – Cost Centre is not a leaf’ then you are not at the cost centre level or you have not selected the correct view which shows the cost centre code. To be able to drill down to the transaction, you need to have the nominal code, cost centre and activity code.Drill down to transactions is not available for budgets and commitments as these are formulae.If you wish to look at transactions in a previous financial year, click on the financial year as shown below and select the previous year. You can only see transactions after 01/08/2010 as earlier transactions were processed on the previous financial system.


CP is updated daily from e5. If a transaction has been added since the last update, the difference will be shown here


Click on the hierarchy to see the following screen.

Selecting an earlier year will show the balance as at the end of that financial year and will not be the current balance.


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Click here to change the financial year to enable you to drill down to transactions in a previous financial year.

Highlight an earlier year and click on OK


Exporting to MS-Excel

You can download and save the information from Collaborative Planning in to MS-Excel. Within MS-Excel this will usually be displayed in outline view.

1. Click Excel button.

2. Click Browse to choose the folder. The folder defaults to My documents.

3. Enter file name and click Save.



4. Click OK to open and load MS-Excel.


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Transaction Drill down can also be exported to Excel.

1. Click File. 2. Click Export.3. Browse to choose the folder. The folder defaults to My Documents4. Enter File Name and click OK5. Export Complete window is shown. Click OK.



Appendix 1 – Chart of Accounts

Account KeyNominal, Cost centre and Activity codes make up the Account key. This information must be entered for every e5 transaction such as journals, sales invoices and purchase orders.

Nominal codeNominal Codes indicate the type of income, expenditure or balance sheet posting, for example travel, research grant income or salary costs. Access to some codes can be restricted for posting and/or enquiry purposes.A nominal code is the basis of every transaction in e5. This is a mandatory field comprising of four digits. Nominal codes are grouped within the following ranges:0000-0999 Balance sheet1000-1799 Income7000-7999 Operating Costs8000-8199 Depreciation and Interest Payable8200-8299 Overheads9000-9199 Payroll Costs9800-9999 Pension and Restructuring Costs

Cost CentreCost centre codes are five digits and are mandatory. Each academic school and the corporate services will have a range of cost centre assigned to them. If any income or expenditure is generated, it will be posted against their cost centres. For example, 43000 – 43999 School of Life Sciences.Only a balance sheet nominal should be used with a balance sheet cost centre -i.e nominals in range 0000-0999 should be used with cost centres in range 00001-29999.

ActivityThis is a six digit code and is mandatory. The activity code is used when a further level of analysis is required by the School. Some Activity codes such as Research grants can only be used with specific cost centres. All Externally Financed Project Cost Centres should have an activity code starting C,D,H,R or S.Activity code examples; R00980 Cancer Research UK, 010003 MusicActivity code is a mandatory field if this level of coding is not required you must still enter a code. The Activity code 000000 is for N/A.

Analysis KeyOther and Payroll codes make up the Analysis key. This information is optional but should be entered when required.

OtherThe Other code is used when another level of analysis is required against the cost centre. For academic schools this code may represent an individual.


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PayrollThis field is populated with an employee’s payroll ID for additional reporting/analysis. This field is also used to record details of the course for a tuition fee which has been raised via the SAINT system interface. Example of coding
