Checking Budgeting 
Use
After budget has been distributed, you can check your budgeting for the total or annual values. This check is made when you save the budget.
Features
The system checks the following budget values:
- In the project structure, the system checks whether the budget values from a lower-level of the WBS element (assigned-values) exceed the budget value of the next level up. As this check is made in the controlling area currency, the system also includes budget that was entered in different currencies.
The system also checks the assigned values in the controlling area currency even if you chose your own currencies for budgeting.
- For each WBS element, the system ensures that the total of the annual budgets does not exceed the overall budget, if budgeting total values is planned (The Total values indicator is set in the budget profile). This check is made in the controlling area currency so that the system can also include the budget values that were entered in another currency.
Even if the total values and annual values match up in a freely selected currency, the values in the controlling area currency can vary from each other if the exchange rate type or the value date for the total values and the annual values differ.
- In active availability control, the system also checks whether the assigned values exceed the overall or annual budget. This check is made in the controlling area currency, so that the system can include budget values that were entered in a different currency. The budget used for comparison depends on the settings made in the availability control in the budget profile.
For more information, see
Availability Control.
If errors occur, the following happens:
- In the overview screen and the annual view, the system selects the budgeted elements in the WBS that contain errors.
- The system issues an error log that you can print out. This log displays the budgeted WBS elements that contain errors, compared with the Budget and assigned values. In active availability control, the log contains the warnings or error messages that were issued due to any excesses of the tolerance limit. You can call up an explanatory text by choosing Long text or by double-clicking on a row in the log.
Activities
Check your budgeting by choosing 
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Correct you budget allocation if necessary, by processing the corresponding budget values as follows:
- Overwrite or select, delete and re-enter
- Re-check and
- Save.