Customizing for Groups
To perform budget transfers and to run the budget reports, you must define which groups (that is, hierarchy of budget chapters and hierarchy of programs) are relevant for the FM area. You make the required settings in Customizing for Public Sector Management
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Funds Management Government
Master Data
Account Assignment Elements
Country-Specific Settings
United Arab Emirates
Specify Relevant Groups for Public Sector Reporting
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In this Customizing activity, you define the following for the FM area:
Types of group that are relevant for retrieving reporting data or for performing budget transfer checks (that is, budget chapters, account groups, and programs)
Name of the relevant group in the FM area (that is, name of the commitment item group for the budget chapter hierarchy or name of the functional area group for the program hierarchy)
Note that you specify the name of the highest node of the hierarchy.
Relevant level of the group type within these hierarchies (where level 1 is the highest node, level 2 is the next level down, and so on)
The settings in the Customizing activity enable the system to do the following:
Run the budget transfer consistency checks when you perform budget transfers
When you create a budget entry document for a budget transfer in a specific FM area, you enter the source (commitment item, program, and subprogram) and target (commitment item, program, and subprogram). When you post the budget entry document, the system identifies the relevant budget chapter hierarchy and program hierarchy for the FM area based on the settings in the Customizing activity.
Based on this information, the system can identify to which budget chapter the source and target commitment items belong and to which program hierarchy the programs and subprograms belong. The system can then check if the budget transfer is allowed based on the settings for budget transfer checks, for example, whether a budget transfer is allowed within the same budget chapter or program (see Budget Transfer Checks).
Retrieve the required reporting data when you run the budget reports
For example, if the system has to retrieve data for programs within a specific FM area, it first identifies the relevant program hierarchy based on the FM area, as defined in Customizing. It then knows that it must retrieve data for programs within that hierarchy, but only for those programs on the specified level (for example, level 2). If required, the system also retrieves data for subprograms that are assigned to the relevant programs.
If the report also displays budget data at commitment item level, the report uses the Customizing settings to determine which budget chapter hierarchy is relevant. It then displays all commitment items that are assigned to the relevant groups at the specified levels within that hierarchy, for example, commitment items assigned to budget chapters on level 2 and account groups on level 3.