Planning 

Purpose

With financial budgeting, you can plan payment flows (revenues and expenditures) for any period you want.

Features

Plan Profile

The plan profile combines the planning control parameters; you define it in Customizing. To carry out planning, you must either create a plan profile of your own or use an existing one. For more information, go to the Cash Budget Management IMG and read the documentation on maintaining plan profiles.

Plan Versions

In practice, the information you have about your company’s planned revenues and expenditures will change constantly. This makes it a good idea to have more than one plan version. Cash Budget Management offers you a flexible planning tool where you can create several plan versions showing payment flows. The individual plan versions are stored separately in the system and displayed in the information system. For information on the procedure, read Plan Versions.

Financial Budgets for Commitment Items

There are two ways of entering financial budget data:

  1. The item overview shows all the commitment items in the selected fiscal year for which planning is possible. Maintain these as required.
  2. In the period overview, you can plan all the periods for one commitment item. You can choose whether the fiscal year is split into days, weeks, or months. The system derives the schedule line from the fiscal year variant assigned to the FM area you are planning.

For more information, read Entering Plan Values

Adjusting Plan Values

You can adjust your plan values - that is, you can increase or decrease them by a given amount or percentage. A simple way of creating different plan versions is to copy a version and then adjust the plan data in it. For information on the procedure, read Plan Versions.