Viewing budget details

This page allows you to view all the details of the budget. You can view the common details of the budget like the type of the budget, the entity and the organization unit for which the budget has been created. You can also view the details of the entities for which the budget has been created and the budgeted quantity and amount. You can also view the duration of the budget.

Select the “View Budget” link at the bottom of the “Generate Budget” page.

The “View Budget” page appears.

The system displays the following:

Budget No.	The number identifying the budget.
Version No.	The number identifying the budget version.
Status	The status of the budget. It could be “Fresh” or “Active”.
Desc.	The description of the budget.
Aggregate / Period	Indicates whether the budget is a comprehensive budget or a period budget. It could be “Aggregate” or “Period”.
	Aggregate – indicates that the budget is a comprehensive budget defined for a date range. This aggregate budget can be split among the MAC periods that are present in the effective date range as per specific seasonality patterns.
	Period – indicates that the budget is defined for MAC periods that are covered in the date range during which the budget is effective. If the parameter “Control Totals for Budgets” has been set as “Yes”, an authorized aggregate budget must be available earlier for a period budget to be created.
Definition Type	Indicates the entity for which the budget has been defined. It could be “Cost Center, “Cost Center - Cost Element”, “Cost Center - Product” or “Cost Element – Product”.
	Cost Center – indicates that the budget is being defined for a detail cost center.
	Cost Center – Cost Element – indicates that you can specify the budgeted amounts and quantities at the cost element level for the individual cost centers. This type of budget is used in analysis, comparison and reporting purposes.
	Cost Center – Product – indicates that you can specify budget amounts and values for the item and the item variants for consumption or product output from a cost center for an accounting period. This type of budget is used to generate material variance reports for cost centers.
Budget Type	Indicates the type of the budget. It could be “Quantity”, “Value” or “Both”.
Budget OU	The organization unit for which the budget is being defined.
Responsibility	The code identifying an employee or the login ID of a valid Enterprise user.
Org. Unit	The code identifying the organization unit to which the employee belongs.

The system displays the following in the “Budget Details” multiline:

Cost Center / Unit	The code identifying the cost center / unit.
Cost Element	The code identifying the cost element.
Item Code	The code identifying the item.
Item Variant	The code identifying the item variant.
Budget Span	The date range covered by the budget. The system displays the effective date and the expiry date of the budget.
Accounting Period	The accounting period for which the budget has been defined.
Qty.	The budgeted quantity.
Amount	The budgeted amount.
Variable Rate / % for Flex Budgeting	Indicates the flat rate or the percentage of variability of the amounts specified for a cost element used in defining flexible budgets.
Variable Proportion for CE – Product	Indicates the proportion of the variability of the input costs of cost elements specified in the budget defined for the “Cost Element – Product”.

The system displays the following:

Created By	The login ID of the user who created the budget.
Created Date	The date on which the budget was created.

To proceed, carry out the following

Select the “Attach Notes” link at the bottom of the page to record your observations regarding the generated budget.
Select the “Collaborate” link at the bottom of the page to record or to view the observations or comments or discussions regarding the document.