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Definition

For each fund, the budget structure represents all the funds centers and commitment items in hierarchical form.

Use

You can select the necessary budget structure elements (BS elements) for your organization from the many combinations of fund centers and commitment items of a fund, then assign these to functions accordingly, to suit your needs for:

By defining budget objects, the size of the budget hierarchy to be processed is generally substantially reduced.

The system only processes the budget objects and not the whole funds center and commitment item hierarchy.

Year-Independent Master Data Maintenance

The budget structure is year-dependent and is valid up until the time it has to be redefined due to new requirements. You define an individual budget structure that is non-year-dependent for each fund if you are using overall values for this fund.

Year-Dependent Master Data Maintenance

You must create a new budget structure for every new fiscal year within the framework of year-dependent master data maintenance.

Note

You can copy the budget structure from the previous year to use as a template in the new fiscal year. For more information, see Maintaining Budget Structure.

Structure

Budget objects

Using budget objects you define the basic rules for budget allocation:

Note

Defining the budget objects in the appropriate way enables central budget allocation or also a mixture of Central and Local Budget Allocation.

Posting objects

Using posting objects you define which BS elements may be posted to.

Assignment objects

You define at which level the availability control checks against the budget.

Note

The definition of assignment objects only makes sense if the assignment level is meant to be over the budget level.

Context of availability control and budget

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Caution

If you are using Cover Pools for an FM area, you may not define assignment objects as the same time. There is a system check done when saving and checking a BS.

Integration

You can also use Budget Structure Templates to define budget structures.

See also:

Maintaining Budget Structure

Budget Objects Consistency Check

Conversion Operations in Budget Structure

Assignment Objects

Assignment Objects Consistency Check

 

 

 

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