Customer-Defined Budget Types

The budget in your organization can be divided into different budget types, such as for budget entry, budget supplements, etc. You can use your organization’s terminology to describe each budget type. You can group the budgeting processes within these budget types in any way you like, to reflect budget processing in your specific organization.

You create budget types in Customizing of Funds Management under  Budget Control System (BCS) Budgeting Basic Settings Definition of Budget Data Budget Types Define Budget Types .

Controlling Budget Processing

In BCS budgeting, you can define in which phase in the course of the budgeting process the processing of particular budget types is permitted or not permitted in combination with status management .

You define the budget types permitted per status in Customizing of Funds Management under  Budget Control System (BCS) Budgeting Control Budgeting Flow Edit Status .

Controlling Consumable Budget

Besides being able to bundle different budget types for consumption in a budget type group, you can also define which budget types are classified as consumable budget per fund or per fund type.You make these settings in Customizing of Funds Management under  Budget Control System (BCS) Budgeting Basic Settings Definition of Budget Data Budget Types Define Budget Type for Consumable Budget. .Please note that if no settings are found on the fund level, the settings made for the fund type level apply.

In the filter settings for availability control , you define which budget types are released as consumable budget for consumption and are updated in availability control during the entry or transfer of budget values.You make these settings in Customizing of Funds Management under  Budget Control System (BCS) Availability Control Settings for Availability Control Ledger Define Filter Settings for Budget Values .

For the current year, you can change budget types that are not released as consumable budget by making AVC filter settings for the “released” budget within a program run. You carry out transfers between budget types to do this. This makes it possible to control the release of consumable budget, for example, per quarter.

Controlling Budget Releases

For carrying out budget releases, there is a new budget type. See Budget Releases for further information. You define budget release data in the Customizing of Funds Management under  Budget Control System (BCS) Budgeting Basic Settings Definition of Budget Data Budget Releases Define Budget Types for Release.