Using Budgets in Financial Reports
Many organizations are interested in reports that not only allow you to compare financial results over periods of time, but also enable you to compare results to budgeted amounts.
To facilitate this requirement, you can create a budget specifically for use in Financial Report Writer, and link your budget structure to your financial reports using analysis codes. You can create the budget in Budget Create (25.5.5.1), or you can import a prepared budget from Excel. You can add budget totals as a column in your financial reports.
Note: This section describes how to define a budget for use in financial reports. Defining budget structures and all other budget-related topics are described in detail in
Budgeting.
Before you create a budget structure, it is important to have a clear vision of what you want to achieve and then select the best data model for your needs. See
Designing a Budget Structure.