Assigning Budgets (Bottom-Up) 

  1. Access the overall budget using the Overall budget view.

    2. Make sure that the budget status is Proposed.

  2. Click on the top budget structure element, and choose .
  3. Choose View ® Available budget.

    4. The system displays the available budget for the individual budget structure elements.

  4. Call up the dialog box for entering the budget amount by double-clicking the lowest budget structure element in the budget hierarchy that is to be assigned a budget.

    5. The rest of the procedure depends on how the budget is classified.

    If the budget is a...

    See:

    Monetary budget

    Assigning a Monetary Budget (Bottom-Up)

    Full-time equivalent budget

    Assigning a Full-Time Equivalent Budget (Bottom-Up)

  5. A negative available budget is displayed for the higher-level budget structure element in the Change Overall Budget screen. The system represents the negative available budget by highlighting it.
  6. Process your budget hierarchy, starting at the bottom and working up. Balance out the negative available budget of each budget structure element by assigning the required budget as described in step 4.