Before you can use budgetary control, you must complete all set up steps. You perform most of the steps in General Ledger.

To set up budgetary control:

1. Define an account structure.

2. Define rollup groups and assign them to segment values.

   See: Rollup Groups Window

3. Enable budgetary control for the ledger.

   Suggestion: Define a ledger before enabling budgetary control for the ledger. Leave the enable budgetary control option set to No for the ledger until you are ready to complete all setup steps for budgetary control.

4. Define the Reserve for Encumbrance account. See: Accounting Setup Manager Prerequisites Checklist.

5. Create a funding budget to use for budgetary control. See: Defining Budgets

6. Define latest open encumbrance year

7. Define a budget organization

8. Assign account ranges to the budget organization.

9. Set budgetary control options for each account range

10. Define encumbrance types

11. Define summary accounts

12. Set budgetary control options for each summary template

13. Define journal sources

14. Define journal categories

15. Define AutoPost options

16. Define system level budgetary control groups. See:Creating a Budgetary Control Group

17. Assign system level budgetary control options to a profile level. See: Setting General Ledger Profile Options

18. Do the following steps in Purchasing:

    • Define a document approval hierarchy

    • Define financial encumbrance options

    • Implement internal requisitioning

19. Enter budget journals for the funding budget

20. Start the Create Journals Program