Top-Down Budget Assignment 

Use

In top-down budget assignment, you can display the available budget of a budget structure element and distribute this among the lower-level budget structure elements.

You specify the budget that is to be assigned to the budget structure element in question using an original budget for monetary budgets (i.e. a monetary amount, say, $ 110,000) or using a budget classification for FTE budgets (e.g. 1.5 full-time equivalents of a position in pay scale 1).

 

You specify an original budget for the budget structure element type Personnel Expenditures. Before you assign budgets to lower-level budget structure elements, you can display how much of the budget you can still assign without exceeding the budget.

By assigning budgets to budget structure elements, you can finance the positions in your organizational structure, or employees. You do this in the processes Financing and Budget Allocation.

Features

The system summarizes the budgets already assigned to the various levels of the budget hierarchy. Depending on the way in which the budget is managed (i.e. using monetary values, or FTEs), the system displays the budget that can still be distributed for the budget structure element in question.

See also:

Assigning a Budget (Top-Down)