System ➔ Finance ➔ Budget scenarios
In order to effectively monitor your business performance based on various scenarios, Exact Globe Next provides a function to create and maintain budget scenarios. Through this function, you can set the duration of a scenario through which the budget will be used to compare with the actual expenses or returns.
The information in this document is applicable to product update 407 and higher. If you have versions lower than this, certain features explained here will not be applicable.
Keep in mind:
Type a short name for the new budget scenario. You can enter up to eight alphanumeric characters. When editing an existing budget scenario, you cannot change this entry.
Type a more detailed description for the new budget scenario. Click to type the description of the budget scenario in other languages. A maximum of five languages can be used. The languages can be defined at System ? Settings ? General settings under the Descriptions in list boxes section. For more information, see General settings.
Type the start year and the period (1–12, as this refers to the months) for the budget scenario.
Type the end financial year and the period (1–12, as this refers to the months) for the budget scenario.
Select the plan period for the new budget scenario. Six options are available which include Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, 4-weekly, Monthly and Quarterly.
After you have selected the plan period and clicked Save, you will see the following message: “This action can’t be undone. Plan period = Monthly. Continue?”
Click Continue to save the new budget scenario. You cannot change the plan period the next time you want to modify this budget scenario. Alternatively, click Cancel if you do not want to save the entries for the new budget scenario.
Note: Plan period is only available if you have the E-Production module.
Click this to save the budget scenario or all the changes made to a budget scenario.
Click this to create another budget scenario.
Click this to exit.