You can plan the years that are likely to be needed to realize a project either before or after the distribution of the overall budget.
- Choose Logistics or Accounting -> Project System -> Controlling -> Budgeting -> Original budget -> Change.
The Change Original Budget: Initial Screen appears.
- Enter the necessary data and choose Continue or Original budget.
- Choose the WBS Element overview.
- The Change Budget: WBS Element Overview screen appears.
- Place the cursor on the WBS element where you want to distribute annual budgets.
- To call up the annual overview, choose Years.
- The Change Original Budget: Annual Overview screen appears. The system displays the overall budget (if any) on the WBS element, and the fields ready for input for the annual values.

Alternative procedure:
Instead of specifying the annual values for a certain WBS element using the annual overview, you can also budget all WBS elements for a certain year.
- Choose Goto -> Annual values to call up the element overview for the start year with the fields ready for input for the budget values.
- Choose Goto -> Timeframe -> Timeframe to call up the Timeframe dialog box, with the entry field Year, which contains the start year.
You can now choose a this timeframe or overwrite the year entry to choose another timeframe.
- If you choose Continue then the system displays the element overview for the selected timeframe, with the fields ready for input in the WBS elements.
- Enter your annual budget for the selected WBS element.
- Use this method to budget for all WBS elements in the project.
- Check your budgeting and save the budget values.

The Copy view, revaluate, and Total up functions are also available for budgeting annual values.