Implementation of the financial planning system using the intra-university information support system of the financial planning process

The case-type article describes the experience of implementing financial planning in Volgograd State University. It describes an approach to solving the practical problem of improving university internal efficacy. The gist of the used budgeting-based approach to university financial management is described alongside with its technologies. The article suggests a new methodological basis for designing the process of planning and budgeting the university’s financial and economic activities as well as a method of creating infrastructure for gathering primary indicators, calculating the indicators of business finance-related matters, as well as for the automatization of planning and budgeting process. The authors identified the place of financial planning in the process of formulating and implementing university development strategy. There was chosen a model for planning and budgeting, local documents were worked out to regulate the planning and budgeting process, architecture of complex information system was designed to support planning and budgeting processes. The article enumerates financial responsibility centers, types of plans, income and costs included into the plans. Budgets of the financial responsibility centers were formed. As a result of the research, the authors proved the efficacy of a mixed planning and budgeting model for a regional autonomous university, as well as the feasibility of using its own information support system for the financial planning process.