Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division progress report for period ending December 31, 1994

This report provides a record of the research activities of the Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division for the period January 1, 1993, through December 31, 1994. This report is the final archival record of the EPM Division. On October 1, 1994, ORELA was transferred to Physics Division and on January 1, 1995, the Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division and the Computer Applications Division reorganized to form the Computer Science and Mathematics Division and the Computational Physics and Engineering Division. Earlier reports in this series are identified on the previous pages, along with the progress reports describing ORNL`s research in the mathematical sciences prior to 1984 when those activities moved into the Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division

The Financial Management Environment (FaME) - A Prototype Interactive Hypertext-based Financial Planning and Reporting System

It is critical in every government, research, and industrial organization that accurate and timely financial information be made available at all levels so that project and business decisions can be made within funding constraints. In the current climate of budget austerity, front line researchers and project leaders are being given more responsibility for managing their own finances. As a result, financial officers are now being called on to help more people understand the details of an organization's finances and therefore have less time to accomplish their primary tasks of budget planning and management. Large organizations are often characterized by legacy financial systems with out-of-date user interfaces, limited functionality, and late or difficult to comprehend reports. These systems are ill-suited to the task of easily extracting and presenting the necessary information to front-line researchers, project leaders and others with financial responsibility. Furthermore, these syst..