In the budget profile you determine whether/how availability control is to be activated and which budget values should be checked by availability control.

For internal orders, availability control checks against the current budget. For projects, availability control can check against the current budget or the released budget. Furthermore, you can decide whether availability control is carried out on the basis of year-independent (= total values) or year-dependent values. The check can be run in the controlling area currency or the object currency. The check in the object currency is only possible for projects if the same object currency is used for all objects (WBS elements, networks, and orders) in a budgeting hierarchy.

Dependent on the settings in the budget profile, availability control checks against one of the following values:

• Current overall budget in controlling area currency
• Current overall budget in object currency
• Current annual budget in controlling area currency
• Current annual budget in object currency
• Released overall budget in controlling area currency (only for projects)
• Released overall budget in object currency (only for projects)
• Released annual budget in controlling area currency (only for projects)
• Released annual budget in object currency (only for projects)