Odyssey

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Odyssey

• Division of Continuing Education

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Odyssey fits a need

• 795 Active Budgets
• 54 Budget Managers
• Ability to forecast accurately using commitments
• Ability to reconcile commitments to general
  ledger activity
• Ability to review aggregated financial reports
• By Manager/Individual Administrator
• By Department and/or Group of departments
• By Program-type
• By Division

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Within an operating unit, this is the summary
view.
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Within an operating unit, this is the budget
view. (Once the budget is approved, only the
override column can be edited)
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Within an operating unit, this is the
commitments view. (Commitments can be created
manually, journal entry upload, and/or by other
systems like registration or payroll)
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Within an operating unit, this is the actuals
view. (PeopleSoft Mirror, updated nightly)
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Within an operating unit, this is the
enrollments view. (Interfaces with Registration
system)
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Within an operating unit, this is the scenario
builder view. (To help with budgeting)
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Here is the reconciliation view. (Matching
Commitments to General Ledger Activity)
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Select roll-up
Here is the reporting view with roll-up. (There
are about a dozen custom reports besides Income
Statement)
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Here is the budget to actual and current year to
prior year (month/month).
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Here is the budget to actual and current year to
prior year (YTD/YTD).
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Other benefits

• Transparency with campus partners
• Athletics controller has access to Odyssey to
  review sports camps information
• Tree mirrors PeopleSoft, however, additional
  levels are created for more detailed reporting
• Ability to interface with other campus partners
  and their systems (any department that bills us,
  we are interested in exploring possible detailed
  electronic interfaces.)