As always, I hope you find this issue of the Newsletter informative. Please let me know<\/a> if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future BW Newsletters<\/p>\n Bill Stewart<\/p>\n The news this month is something that has the potential to be valuable to anyone who needs to monitor employee cost distributions. For more information, read about recent modifications to the PA15 and PA12 Labor Distribution reports described\u00a0<\/span>in the Tips & Tricks section below.<\/span><\/p>\n Upcoming Intermediate-level Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n SRM Reports: Introduction to the recently-released reports<\/a> – available to employees with the shopper or approver role who have previously attended\u00a0an introductory-level BW training session. Anyone who has not attended an intro session should register for this SRM reporting session<\/a>.<\/p>\n HCM Employee Model Reporting<\/a> – available to Payroll Coordinators and Managers, the reports examined in this workshop provide access to\u00a0vast amounts\u00a0of master data and enable\u00a0users to develop answers\u00a0to their various personnel administration and organizational management questions.<\/p>\n Introductory Workshops offered this month<\/strong><\/p>\n As always, an assortment of introductory workshops will be offered. These sessions present to new employees – or employees assigned a new business role – the fundamentals of reporting for\u00a0a particular subject area. The sessions are a great way to review material, too. Even if you previously attended an intro session, you are\u00a0likely to learn new things about reporting – or to be reminded of concepts that you had forgotten.<\/p>\n Click on any of the following links for a course description and\/or to register for an upcoming session:<\/p>\n Funds Management Reporting<\/a><\/p>\n Grants Management Reporting<\/a><\/p>\n Supplier Resource Management Reporting<\/a><\/p>\n Labor Distribution (Payroll) Reporting<\/a><\/p>\n Some of these Tips may be new to you, while others may be familiar. Regardless, we hope you find value in these and future Tips, even if we do no more than remind you of the existence of tools you once knew about but had since forgotten.<\/p>\n Note: all of the Tips posted in BW\u00a0newsletters are archived on this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Previously, it was up to users of the PA15 or PA12 Labor Distribution reports to use the BW\u00a0cell calculation function to generate percentages based on salary amounts per payment period. Unfortunately, the cell calculation feature broke when we updated to the latest version of the Business Warehouse, so this feature, which proved valuable\u00a0to many payroll coordinators and managers, forced users to manually perform the calculation in Excel.\u00a0However, recent modifications\u00a0to these two reports\u00a0obviates the need for individuals to insert their own calculations.<\/p>\n The solution? Three new Key Figures have been added to these two reports. Each of the Figures\u00a0show percentages corresponding to the payment amounts displayed in the <\/span>Salary<\/em>, <\/span>Salary Accrual<\/em>, and <\/span>Total Gross<\/em> Key Figures. These percentages are hidden initially but, when they are made visible, report output looks like this:<\/span><\/p>\n In this example, Salary % Distribution <\/em>percentage shows the percentage represented by each payment amount, by funding source, tied to\u00a0employee payments. Percentages are available for the\u00a0Salary Accrual<\/em> and\u00a0Total Gross<\/em> Key Figures, too.<\/span><\/p>\n Have you ever thought that it would be really useful if you could get members of your department together with a trainer to focus on BUworks functionality that is specific to the work your department does? I\u2019m happy to work with any department or group that would like to develop and conduct a custom basic- or intermediate-level reporting training session. There are only two requirements for such a session: (1) input from the group is necessary to develop a relevant agenda, and (2) the group should include four or more employees. If you\u2019re interested in discussing the development of a custom session for your department or school\/college, contact me via email<\/a> or give me a call at 617-353-6382.<\/p>\nReporting News<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
Training Calendar<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
April\/May Training Opportunities<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Tips & Tricks<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
How to Create a Split Cost Distribution Report<\/h3>\n
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Step-by-step instructions for building a split distribution report like this are provided in this document:\u00a0How to – Build a Split Distribution Report<\/a><\/p>\nEnd Notes<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
Custom Training Sessions<\/strong>
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