Master Data for Negative Budget
Use
If you want to enter negative budget values for certain FM account assignments, you must flag these FM account assignments, as they are subject to special budget consistency and availability control requirements. For further information on negative budget allocation, see Negative Budget .
Note
Note that this function is only intended for former budgeting; it is not relevant for the Budget Control System (BCS).
Integration
You create the master data for the affected FM account assignments as normal. You can find information on this in the documentation on the subject Master Data .
Features
All tax information is defined in the master record of commitment items. Participant funds centers or funds do not need any special indicators.
Master record of the participant commitment items
You can flag an FM account assignment by selecting the field
Negative Budget
of the affected commitment item in the master record.
This field is available for the expenditure type ‘commitment items: as well as the ‘revenue’ type.
You create these commitment items in the standard variant ‘000‘ as individual nodes. This means that there are not any subordinate or superior nodes for them.
Restrictions
You cannot select the field
Negative Budget
if the commitment item is:
- Used in a cover pool
- Flagged as a collective expenditure commitment item
- Flagged as a balance commitment item
- Flagged as a statistical commitment item
- Taken into account by revenues increasing the budget
Caution
If budget values for an FM account assignment are already saved in the system, then you can no longer change the field
Negative Budget
.