Budget Plan Structures

Overview

Budget Plan Structure allows the scenario administrators to define the hierarchical structure of a budget plan. The whole budget plan structure will include one or more interrelated records in this entity.

Each scenario can only have one whole budget plan structure. The information defined here will be referenced from budget plan which contains a group of budget lines including its responsible user, status, deadline and more.

 

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Budget Planning ► Support Entities ► Budget Plan ► Budget Plan Structure

 

Budget Plan Structure screen Fields

Field

Description

Code

This is a unique identifier that is automatically assigned by the system.

Active

By default this is 'True'. If this is switched to 'False', then this Budget Plan Structure cannot be used in future transactions.

Allows Foreign Currency

By default this is 'False'. If this is 'True', budget plans associated to this structure allows data entry for budget amounts in foreign currency.

Allow Changes In Lowest Level

If this is not ticked, the responsible users for the highest levels (typically supervisors), will not be able to modify Budget Plan data in the lowest level.

Allow Modify Consolidated Amounts

If checkbox is ticked, the system will allow the responsible user of the budget plan to modify consolidated amounts and therefore propagate the change to lower levels.

Validation For Budget Line Data Entry

Default is true which means that data entry of Budget Line Amounts and Currency, under the Budget Line Tab cannot be performed manually, if the associated Budget Line Coding Block is used by Cost Driver(s) or is included as part of a Cost Driver expression.

Budget Planning Scenario

This contains the Scenario to which this budget plan structure applies to.

Institution

This refers to the institution associated to this budget plan structure.

Budget Planning Scenario CoA Group

This is the reference to the CoA Group to which this level is associated.

Coding Block Type Definition

Coding Block Type Definition (Coding Block Expression) for Budget Plans associated to this Budget Plan Type. The Budget Line Coding Blocks entered under the Budget Plan associated to this Budget Plan Structure will be validated against this Coding Block Information.

Language

The language used to describe the Budget Plan Structure.

Name

The name of the Budget Plan Structure.

Description

The description of the Budget Plan Structure.

Budget Plan Additional Required Field Tab

Collection of 0 to many fields to be added under Budget Plans.

 

Budget Plan Additional Required Field

Overview

This contains a collection of 0 to many Numeric fields to be added under Budget Plans.

 

Budget Plan Additional Required Field Tab screen Fields

Field

Description

Is CoA Segment Description?

If this checkbox is ticked the system should ask for the description of additional fields for all elements that are included in the concepts of the defined segments and rolling-up from the budget line coding block, in the same segment.

Is Mandatory

Ticked checkbox means that the text or numeric field is mandatory, otherwise numeric field is not mandatory.

Is Numeric

To indicate when new Field is Numeric.

Number of Decimals

Number of decimals that are allowed for data entry, if Is Numeric is set to True.

Is Element Detail

To indicate that the Additional Field is related to the Budget Line Coding Block.

Segment

Segment for which the element description will be required if Is CoA Segment Description is set to True, that the user will select from the list of segments from the Scenario COA Group of the Budget Plan Structure.

Language

Users can select the language to describe entity.

FieldName

Name of the entity.

Concept

Collection of 1 to N Concept(s) from Segment defined under COA elements. The concepts listed will be the concept at the level of the COA group and parent levels, within the selected segment.