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About Budgets

 

Budgets are used to help calculate and record the revenues and expenses you project for a given fiscal year.  An easy-to-use Budget Wizard (see Figure 14-3) is provided which will assist in creating your budget.  You can then modify the created budget to suit your needs.  Once completed, you can report your actual results against the budget to analyze how your company is performing.

 

This feature requires activation in Setup General Ledger.  Please note that this feature may not be included in your software license.

 

 

In this Topic

 Quick Help -  Budgets

 Field by Field Help - Budget Wizard screen

 Field by Field Help - Update Budget screen

 Field by Field Help - Budget Detail screen

 Q & A - Budgets

 

 

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Quick Help -  Budgets

 

1)Select the Budgets menu option.
2)Click the New button to create a new budget.
3)Follow the wizard steps to create the budget based on historical amounts or other budgets.
4)When created, click the Edit button to update the budget.
5)Select a budget account, and click the Edit button to adjust budget details.
6)Run financial statements versus budget to obtain current comparisons.

 

 

 

 

Field by Field Help - Budget Wizard screen

 

Budget Description

Enter a description for the budget.  This value will be used to identify this budget.

 

Budget Year

Enter the fiscal year to which this budget relates.

 

Budget Creation Method

Choose the manner in which the program should create the new budget.

 

Actual PercentThe program will create the new budget by calculating the actual total amounts in each general ledger account for a given base year and then adding or subtracting a defined percentage amount.

 

Budget PercentThe program will create the new budget by using a base year's budget amounts and then adding or subtracting a defined percentage amount.

 

Blank BudgetThe program will create a blank budget. with zero amounts.

 

Base Year/Base Budget

Select the year/budget to use as the basis for calculation.

 

Percent Change

Choose the percentage amount by which the program should adjust the values from a previous budget or year to make the new budget numbers.  Choose from the following:

 

Adjust all accounts byThe program will adjust all figures by a fixed percentage amount.  Select or enter that percentage amount here.

 

Adjust account types byThe program will adjust figures within individual account types by the percentage amount specified for each account type.  Select or enter each percentage amount in the fields provided.

 

Finish

Click this button or press <Enter> to complete the budget.

 

Cancel

Click this button to discard the entered information and return to the previous window.

 

 

 

 

Field by Field Help - Update Budget screen

 

Buttons

 

Save budget

Click on this button to save the budget and return to the previous window.

 

Edit budget amount

Click on this button to change the highlighted account's budget details.

 

Header Fields

 

Budget Description

Enter a description for the budget.  This value will be used to identify this budget.

 

Department Code

If desired, enter or select a department code whose budget amounts you wish to view.  The program will display only general ledger accounts associated to the selected department.  This value may be locked and defaulted by the Security Administrator program.

 

Budget Year

Displays the year for which this budget was created.  This value cannot be changed.

 

Budget Period

Select the detail period for which to view budget information.

 

Show Statistical Accounts

If selected, will show statistical accounts which do not figure into the monetary amount of the budget.

 

Fig12-3

Figure 14-3.        New Budget Wizard screen

 

 

Budget Net Income

Displays a summation of the detail item's budget amounts.

 

 

Detail Fields

 

GL Account - Description

Displays the GL Account number and description

 

Account Type

Shows the type of general ledger account that exists on this line.

 

Budget Amount

The amount that has been allocated for this general ledger account  in this budget for the selected period.

 

 

 

 

Field by Field Help - Budget Detail screen

 

GL Account

Displays the general ledger account number and name of the account.

 

Fiscal Period

Displays the fiscal period for this budgeted amount.  This value cannot be changed.

 

Amount

Enter the budgeted amount for this GL account.  Optionally, click on the Calculator button to use the calculator to compute the amount.

 

Allocation

 

Subaccount Allocation

If the account selected has subaccounts, select how to divide the amount budgeted to the subaccounts of this main account.  Choose from the following:

 

NoneDo not allocate to the subaccounts.  All of their values will be set to zero. The main (selected) account will be set to the value indicated.

 

EqualAllocate an equal division of the budgeted amount to each sub account.  All of the subaccount amounts will become the same.  The main (selected) account will be zero.

 

ActualAllocate the amounts for each subaccount based upon actual numbers from the previous year. The main (selected)  account will be zero.

 

Period Allocation

If the period selected is a fiscal year, select how to divide the amount budgeted to each period of the budget year.  Choose from the following:

 

EqualDivide the amount budgeted evenly over all periods.

 

ActualBase the period amounts on actual numbers from the previous year.

 

Period Detail

 

In this tab, view/edit the period amounts for each period of the budget year.  Click the Edit button or <double-click> a budget detail item to edit.

 

 

 

 

 

Q & A - Budgets

 

Q01.I don't see my question here.  Where else can I get information?
A01.Visit our website's Technical Support section.

 

 



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