Higher Education Financial Management
Integrate operational and financial data.
Improve transparency. Forecast scenarios.
How SAS® Delivers Higher Education Financial Management Capabilities
Benefit from a proactive approach to managing institutional and financial data. SAS helps you leverage data to understand, predict and optimize your institution’s financial health and risk. With SAS, you can improve the accuracy and timeliness of financial plans, budgets and forecasts.
Unified view of financials
- Move beyond spreadsheets to access critical data across multiple systems and platforms.
- Connect to financial source systems and multiple operational data stores quickly and easily, wherever they reside.
- Transform, integrate, govern and secure sensitive financial data while improving its overall quality and reliability.
- Apply automated, sophisticated data quality techniques to create a single, holistic view of the institution’s finances.
- Organize data in an analytical data warehouse to identify important trends.
Automated analytics & monitoring
- Monitor key education metrics and accurately calculate and compare financial results to operational values.
- Remediate high-risk processes and quickly pivot to safer strategies.
- Analyze revenue by source, expenses by function, capital spending budget and financial aid awards.
- Prevent, detect and respond to suboptimal decision points throughout the institution’s operational process.
- Simulate and optimize financial scenarios to identify necessary operational adjustments.
Faster time to value
- Take advantage of SAS’ domain and industry expertise within the financial and higher education industries.
- Leverage prebuilt data governance, data models and reports for enrollment trends, budget justifications, daily operating reports and forecasting revenue.
- Analyze the primary drivers of your institution's operational expenses and revenues to inform capital spending requests for each budget year.
- Communicate efficiently and effectively to boards and senior leadership.
Why choose SAS® for higher education financial management?
SAS helps you leverage data from your ERP systems to establish a next-generation education financial management and analytics environment. Improve the accuracy and timeliness of your financial plans, budgets and forecasts. Make every dollar invested work harder on behalf of students and the institution to maximize net revenue while boosting affordability.
Increase financial transparency
Take advantage of operational analytics to ensure transparency of financial status.
Reduce risk
Predict financial health and simulate outcomes of policy and procedure changes for compliance and accreditation purposes.
Optimize financial aid awards
Create predictive and prescriptive analytical models to maximize net tuition revenue across the student life cycle.
Improve financial projections
Utilize financial and operational projections with scenario analysis for possible future performance.
Inform budget justifications
Determine year-over-year growth and trends in admission yield, both in head count and FTE, to inform higher education budget strategies.
Manage capital spending requests
Provide accurate insights to assess capital spending allocation requests for each budget year across the institution.
Analytics is essential to higher education financial management.
Our CFO and our VP of finance can start now to see the light at the end of the tunnel to get better financial optics on the operation. [We launched] our first payroll dashboard throughout the institution. And we are literally going to be able to show down to paycheck level every dollar and cent and where it's going and how it’s spent. Jason Simon, PhD Assistant Vice President for Data Analytics and Institutional Research UNT
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Recommended Resources for Higher Education Financial Management
- White Paper Building an Analytical Culture for SuccessAn ambitious, culture-centric project reshaped people’s attitudes about data and quickly returned more than a $1 million in cost savings. See the six guiding principles that led to success where three earlier attempts had failed.
- White Paper Data Management: The Foundation for Successful Reporting and Analytics in EducationSee how effective data management enables educational institutions to generate accurate reports and analytics - and how SAS can help.
- E-Book Government and education: Leading through changeExplore the collected wisdom and stories of government and education leaders who are rising to the challenges of our times and applying analytics to drive evidence-based decision making.
- White Paper Ten Tips for Using Data and Analytics Effectively in EducationLearn how to turn scattered data sources into timely, data-informed insights for improving performance, student and institutional effectiveness, and more
- Webinar Analytics for Higher EducationJoin us for this special summit focused on how leaders in higher education are using analytics to make the most out of their data and enhancing every aspect of their institutions.