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Contribution_Margin RESIZED CONFIDENCE IN PRACTICE TOOLKIT 

How to measure your expenses so you can manage your future

 

Building a culture that balances your academic mission with critical financial considerations requires a strategic approach, and data at the ready. Download this toolkit for best practices, real-life scenarios, and strategies for exploring your two largest expenditures (labor and academics) as levers for cost savings and optimization — even when regulatory pressures increase and funding shifts mount.

Check out a sneak peak of what’s included below.

HC-BW-Icon-150x150-32CHAPTER 1: Enrollment & Institutional Spending Patterns:
           New trends impacting financial sustainability

Learn about emerging enrollment and spending trends through new research, and learn strategies to address labor cost pressures for long-term financial sustainability.

 

HC-BW-Icon-150x150-28CHAPTER 2: Centralization & Budget Blind Spots: Strategies
          for measuring ROI and managing bloat

Learn data-driven methods to identify budget blind spots, measure centralization, and evaluate ROI to support more strategic resource allocation that protects mission-critical operations.

 

HC-BW-Icon-150x150-09CHAPTER 3: Measuring Academic Program ROI: Insights on
           how to unite finance and academic leadership
  

Learn how to calculate academic program contribution margins and build collaboration between finance and academic leaders - so you can make strategic decisions about program investment and subsidization.

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12+ resources to help you understand ROI & make more strategic investments.

ID: Screenshots of a research report about labor cost benchmarking and a case study with John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Original research & case studies

 

ID: Screenshots of two video walkthroughs from the Confidence in Practice Finance Toolkit.

Hours of video walkthroughs on best strategies & tips

ID: Screenshots of the two blogs about activity-based costing and measuring program efficiency.

Finance articles & insights