Planning

The creation of planned values is the basis for the comparison of actual values versus planned values and corresponding deviations on a financial year basis. You can refer to and use the planned values in reports.

Overview of financial planning (budgets)

Via Finance > Reports > Accounting > Budgets, you can call up the overview of financial planning and access the overview of planning per financial year.

You can create a new plan via Add, discard a plan via Remove and open a plan via Edit or double-click.
To use a year's plan in another year, you can select the plan in the overview and then duplicate it, specifying a time shift of up to 5 years in the past and future.

Importing planning values

In the overview of financial planning, you can import values in csv format that you have previously prepared externally, e.g. with Excel, via Further actions (three dots).

In reporting, planning values with a cost dimension are only addressed by value lines according to cost dimension. If you want to display planning at G/L account level in reporting, it must not contain a cost dimension.
The easiest way to do this is to import the budget (under different names) once with and once without a cost dimension.

Editing financial planning

Financial planning consists of four business objects. While you can see the descriptive information under (1), you can set a filter for the planned values under (2) so that only the budgets that are assigned to a selected report item are displayed in table (5).

Via Create budget (3), you can determine a planned value for a year and distribute it to the individual periods of the year by defining a monthly key (4).
Via Edit monthly key, you can also use non-linear distribution, e.g. for strong seasonal fluctuations.

The budgets can be created on the basis of a G/L account or with additional consideration of a cost dimension account (e.g. for nodes of the USALI reports).

You can see the budgets created in the table below. These can be called up individually and adjusted on a monthly basis.