RES-Q® Budget Builder™ Software

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Budget Builder

The RES-Q Budget Builder™ is a powerful budgeting tool that allows you to plan your departmental budgets based on proposed staffing assignments and estimated daily workload activities. It takes into account all of the variables you typically encounter when putting together an accurate plan for the coming year, including shift and skill mix percentages, benefit time requirements (both replaced and non-replaced), overhead considerations for orientation and education, and other miscellaneous costs.

The Budget Builder also allows you play "what if" scenarios. You can vary the numbers of staff, the skill mix, benefit time, orientation and training, etc and instantly see the impact from a hours and cost per unit of service, as well as total cost basis. The Budget Builder also calculates your department performance ratios.

The Budget Builder is an integral part of RES-Q Labor Resource Management. The staffing plan in the Budget Builder™ drives the budgeted scheduling totals that are available in the printed schedule formats as well the on-screen totals that compare actual vs. budgeted staff by skill level. It is also used to define your budgeted FTE positions to feed RES-Q's Position Control and Turnover reports.

The user-defined Position Control module is integrated into the system enabling unlimited positions to be created for any budgeted staffing level. In addition, the Budget Builder contains all of the staffing guidelines and ratios which are used to determine the recommended staffing patterns within RES-Q

Key Functionalities Include:

  • On-line FTE totals as you enter each job class;
  • Automatic calculation of budgeted shift and skill mix percentages as well as the ability to add varying skill mix percentages at varying volume levels;
  • FTE replacement factor forbenefit and non-benefit employees;
  • Individual job class nonproductive costs and total shift differential cost;
  • Paid days off by FTEs & cost.
  • A user-defined position control system with unlimited number of positions.
  • Simulates the financial and performance impact on a department's budget as staffing, salary rates, volumes, and department workload standards are adjusted.
  • Vary your budget using midnight versus actual census;
  • Include or exclude indirect tasks assigned to direct caregivers;
  • Vary skill mix utilization for various volume levels;
  • Implement pay scale changes or benefit packages;
  • Budget nonproductive time using FTEs versus body counts;
  • Adjust staff for budget reallocations.