Financial Budgets for Commitment Items 

You can enter and plan commitment items individually in financial budgeting. However, as companies more usually plan for more than one commitment item at a time, it is better to proceed as follows:

  1. In the Cash Budget Management menu, choose Cash budget ® Maintain.

    2. This brings up the planning request screen.

  2. Enter an FM area, fiscal year, a particular plan version, and an interval of commitment items.

    3. This brings you to the item overview, which lists all the commitment items in the interval.

    If you have created a commitment item hierarchy, the commitment item overview shows only the account assignment items.

  3. There are two ways of proceeding from the item overview:

    4. – You can enter a plan for one period, covering several commitment items. In this case, you enter your plan values directly in the item overview.

    You can enter either overall values for a particular fiscal year, or enter a plan for a number of periods in a fiscal year. Choose Goto ® Annual values or Goto ® Period values.

    When entering period values, choose Goto ® Period to select the period for which you want to plan.

    – You can enter a plan for one commitment item, covering several periods. To do this, select the items in the overview for which you want to enter a plan.

    Choose Goto ® Period overview to proceed to the screen where you enter your plan values.

    If you enter an overall total in the lower part of the screen and then enter a distribution key (the standard system proposes key 1), the value is automatically distributed over the displayed period, as specified in the distribution key. Alternatively, you can enter your plan values manually.

    You plan the commitment items in sequence. Use the Next function to pass to the period overview for the next commitment item selected. Plan this item and proceed in the same way until you have processed all the commitment items.

  4. Save your plan values.