The Integrated Planning Solution for Higher Education

  Using ActionKPI’s Integrated Planning Solution for Higher Education, you can more accurately forecast the enrolment mix of undergraduate/graduate programs, empower faculties by increasing transparency to their budgets and balance class demand with faculty onboarding to ensure optimized service to your students.

Stop relying on outdated and inaccurate information from your faculties.

A higher education institution has a lot of moving parts, stakeholders and demands. The finance team often suffers from siloed information and financial data is nested in bespoke systems.
This forces analysts to waste time manually compiling data and analyzing it without very much confidence in the accuracy of the information.
With The Integrated Planning Solution for Higher Education, institutions will be able to automate data collection, create transparency within all faculties and departments and drill down into the true drivers of institutional performance. 
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Analyze scenarios and the financial impact of the student enrolment mix

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Plan and optimize FTEs, positions and tutors to meet workforce and course demands

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Stay ahead of rising education costs by easily conducting scenario analysis

What Our Clients Have to Say About Working With Us:

“It was such a foundational change to how we looked at the budgets – from a manual upload of data that is a month old or even a quarter old to every night. It changed the speed at which we can make decisions & see what is happening. Before, a lot of decisions were made behind closed doors. Now, the university has moved to integrated planning so it is very inclusive, almost everyone is involved in the process versus just finance.”
Long Huynh

Director of Decision Support, Athabasca University

Introducing The

Integrated Planning SolutionFor Higher Education

A system specifically built for Higher Education that enables you to leverage pre-built models that unify company-wide planning and forecasting on a single platform. Learn about how it works below:

Integrated Resource Planning

Take last year’s approved budget and layer on new budget requests through a collaborative workflow. By centralizing budget requests and establishing an evaluation and ranking criteria based on operation’s needs and strategic initiatives, institutions can allocate funds efficiently and have clear insight into the financial impact and progress of initiatives.

Integrated Resource Planning

Take last year’s approved budget and layer on new budget requests through a collaborative workflow. By centralizing budget requests and establishing an evaluation and ranking criteria based on operation’s needs and strategic initiatives, institutions can allocate funds efficiently and have clear insight into the financial impact and progress of initiatives.

Resource Capacity Planning

Make strategic decisions on where to grow your course offerings with a line of sight to the staff you’ll need to deliver. Build resource capacity scenario planning into your hiring decisions to better prepare for enrolment volatility.

Resource Capacity Planning

Make strategic decisions on where to grow your course offerings with a line of sight to the staff you’ll need to deliver. Build resource capacity scenario planning into your hiring decisions to better prepare for enrolment volatility.

Budgeting

Build your budget in line with your GL and your institutional drivers, using collaborative workflows for all faculties and departments to contribute.

Budgeting

Build your budget in line with your GL and your institutional drivers, using collaborative workflows for all faculties and departments to contribute.

Forecast & Variance

Forecast based on your Income Statement and Balance Sheet, using personalized sandboxes to look at what-if scenarios before committing your forecast. Integrate daily actuals to perform forecast variance analysis throughout the month to facilitate actions and drive results before your month-end close.

Build bottom-up rolling financial forecasts, based on workforce changes, projects, operational plans, enrollments and expense plans, that faculty and department heads can understand and own.  Integrate daily actuals to perform forecast variance analysis throughout the month to facilitate actions and drive results before your month-end close.

Forecast & Variance

Forecast based on your Income Statement and Balance Sheet, using personalized sandboxes to look at what-if scenarios before committing your forecast. Integrate daily actuals to perform forecast variance analysis throughout the month to facilitate actions and drive results before your month-end close.

Build bottom-up rolling financial forecasts, based on workforce changes, projects, operational plans, enrollments and expense plans, that faculty and department heads can understand and own.  Integrate daily actuals to perform forecast variance analysis throughout the month to facilitate actions and drive results before your month-end close.

Workforce

Build bottom-up workforce plans based on current, vacant and anticipated positions throughout the year, providing a transparent and up-to-date picture of your labour costs across your institution. Reforecast, adjust plans and take action to reallocate resources faster to minimize deficits and surplus budgets.

Workforce

Build bottom-up workforce plans based on current, vacant and anticipated positions throughout the year, providing a transparent and up-to-date picture of your labour costs across your institution. Reforecast, adjust plans and take action to reallocate resources faster to minimize deficits and surplus budgets.

Financial Performance Per Program

Understanding the financial performance of courses through an apples-to-apples analysis at the credit level. Roll up courses to program and faculty levels to understand the wider performance of the institution. Provide faculties with the right information through data transparency and accuracy so they are empowered to steward the growth of their course offerings in a balanced and healthy manner.

Financial Performance Per Program

Understanding the financial performance of courses through an apples-to-apples analysis at the credit level. Roll up courses to program and faculty levels to understand the wider performance of the institution. Provide faculties with the right information through data transparency and accuracy so they are empowered to steward the growth of their course offerings in a balanced and healthy manner.

Contribution Margin by Program

Determine contribution margin by course programs based on enrollment, pricing and key cost drivers. Roll up course programs and faculty levels to understand the wider performance of the institution. Provide faculty decision-makers with timely information and analysis so they are empowered to steward the growth of their course offerings and take corrective action.

Contribution Margin by Program

Determine contribution margin by course programs based on enrollment, pricing and key cost drivers. Roll up course programs and faculty levels to understand the wider performance of the institution. Provide faculty decision-makers with timely information and analysis so they are empowered to steward the growth of their course offerings and take corrective action.

Student Services Planning

Analyze the student services required for your students and allocate resources where they are most needed. Run what-if scenarios based on future student demand and ensure future resources are available to be allocated.

Student Services Planning

Analyze the student services required for your students and allocate resources where they are most needed. Run what-if scenarios based on future student demand and ensure future resources are available to be allocated.

Payroll

Stay ahead of the curve. Plan for demand increases, curtailments, and competitive compensation packages to ensure you’ve got the team to optimize production, whether enrolment patterns are up or down.

Payroll

Stay ahead of the curve. Plan for demand increases, curtailments, and competitive compensation packages to ensure you’ve got the team to optimize production, whether enrolment patterns are up or down.

Enrolment & Tuition Analysis

Covid has created major disruptions to enrolment patterns with dramatic changes in the mix of international vs domestic enrolments. Have confidence in your financial position and reduce errors or data discrepancies by centralizing enrolment data while providing controlled access to all relevant stakeholders.

Enrolment & Tuition Analysis

Covid has created major disruptions to enrolment patterns with dramatic changes in the mix of international vs domestic enrolments. Have confidence in your financial position and reduce errors or data discrepancies by centralizing enrolment data while providing controlled access to all relevant stakeholders.

Outcomes You Can Count On:

Increase Trust & Accountability

Collaborate with faculties and departments, gain buy-in on budgets and forecasts and ultimately create more trust between finance and stakeholders.

Plan Resources With Confidence

Gain granularity in your payroll and resource analysis. Fully understand where and when you need resources to best plan for volatile enrolment patterns.

Improve The Accuracy of Your Forecast

Improve financial accuracy and granular insight into forecast revenue. Increase efficiency by connecting to source systems and automating the data load process.

Why Us?

Implementation Done By CPAs

Our team of CPAs combine technology mastery with data wizardry and deep financial knowledge to truly drive optimal results.

Training Beyond The Product

Transfer our knowledge and skillsets to your team to empower future growth outside of simply showing your team what buttons to push.

Experience Within Higher Education

We’ve worked with institutions and have overcome the common challenges that occur when implementing a new planning system. 

Our Non-Negotiable Promises To You

This is what it is like to work with us:
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On-Call Support

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Useful Dashboards & Visualizations

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User-First Development

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Trusted Advisors & Frank Assessments

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Access to Consultancy Teams As You Need Them

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Quality Service

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