Customization & Training Program

Customization & Training

An integral part of the PFM Future Perfect service offering is our Customization and Training Program. This Program is designed to develop a model that is tailored to perfectly match your institution’s accounting and aesthetic preferences. More importantly, over the course of the Program our PFM Future Perfect base architecture is reorganized and re-wired to reflect the substance of your financial decision-making; it becomes an intuitive extension of how your institution behaves and thinks about itself.

The Program also uses the customization of your institution’s model to teach users not only how to use the model, but also how to edit, manipulate, and modify the model going forward. The Program downloads our intellectual capital to you, so that in the end you own the model as though you built it in-house.

The Customization and Training Program is fully documented, and the documentation is included in our service offering. It is taught over three multi-day sessions, with some amount of data collection, design work, and model modification expected between formal training sessions. The following outlines a typical Customization and Training Program. Click here for a PDF file.

OVERVIEW OF CUSTOMIZATION & TRAINING CURRICULUM SCHEDULE

Session One (Design)
2 Days
 Session Two (Build)
5 Days
 Session Three (Implement)
2 Days
Day One Day One Day One
Overview of Model
Exercises
Design Decisions
 Data Loading;
Customization Plan;
FP Functionality;
Modify Debt,
Employees Submodels
 Finish Data Load, Wiring
Spinners; 
Validate Model and
Tune Base
Load Projects, Fix Planning
Key Errors
     
Day Two Day Two Day Two
Load and Reconcile
Prior Year Data
 Modify Employees,
Expense,
Students Submodels;
Activities Statement,
CF Statement
 Build Budget Sheet,
Load Ratio Data;  
Strategies regarding
Rollout and Use    
Presentation Workshop
     
  Day Three  
  Customize Dashboard;
link to Control;
Modify Budget
Statement;
Cross-walk versus
Activities Statement
  
     
  Day Four  
  Validation and Testing
tools;
Planning Sheet
Projects;
Tuning a Base Case
  
     
  Day Five  
  Customize Manual;
Planning for Session
Three;
Ratios data; debt;
historical data