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.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER 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.




