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Use

Period-based budgeting deals with supplementary functionality in the Budget Control System which enables you to:

  • control which periods of a given fiscal year are open and which are closed

  • control which funds are managed according to the period settings made

Integration

Period-based budgeting is fully integrated with the Funds Management BCS functionality.

Prerequisites

In order to do period-based budgeting, you must first have activated period control in Customizing (IMG menu path   Funds Management Government   Budget Control System (BCS)   Control Budgeting Flow   Activate Period Control   .

Note Note

If period control is not activated here – that is, if you have not made any entries – the default setting defines that all periods are open for budgeting.

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Activities

After carrying out the IMG activity under Prerequisites above, go to the Public Sector main menu   Funds Management   Additional Functions   Closing Operations   Open and Close Periods/Fiscal Years   Budget (BCS)   Individual Processing   (Transaction FMOPER) and maintain the budgeting periods for your FM area.

If you want to carry out fund-based period control, you can do so here as well. In this way, you can open and close periods for specific funds.

Note Note

If period control has been activated in Customizing, all periods are automatically closed until you open them using the above transaction.

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Period Control and BCS Status Management

When you use period-based budgeting, BCS status management remains active in parallel. SAP recommends that you use the two functions in the following way:

  • Period-based budgeting to control which period is open for budget changes in general. It therefore provides a period-based view of your budgeting data.

  • Status management to control the combination of budget process and budget type to be used during a certain phase of the budget cycle. Status management provides a process-oriented view of the same data.