What is UBUD?
UBUD (University Budget System) is a web-based reporting system that allows the user to track budgeted dollar amounts, budgeted FTE, current expenditures, budget transfers, and forecasted dollar need to fiscal year-end by individual positions and pool IDs. UBUD differs from KUFS (KU Financial System) in that KUFS cannot track budgeted dollars allocated to individual positions or FTE and can only track expenditures and budget transfers by budget category totals, i.e. total salaries, student wages, fringes, OOE, equipment, or travel. UBUD is a budgetary management tool. However, in creating its reports, the UBUD system may utilize information from a number of university systems. For UBUD, the primary source of information is the working budget system. Other data sources include the financial system, payroll system (for detailed expenditures of gross and fringe by pay period), and the salary forecast data mart (for details of the gross and fringe forecast by pay period). Depending on the
