Setting Budgetary Control Options for an Account Range

If you are using budgetary control for your ledger, you can set budgetary control options for an assigned account range or account. You can only assign budgetary control options to account ranges for your ledger currency and a budget entry type of Entered.

To set budgetary control options for an account range:

  1. Select the Budgetary Control button.

  2. See: Funds Check Level.

  3. If you select an Advisory or Absolute funds check level, enter the Amount Type and Boundary to determine the time interval over which to perform funds checking. See: Amount Type and Boundary.

  4. If you select an Advisory or Absolute funds check level, enter the name of the Funding Budget against which you want General Ledger to check or reserve funds. You must enter a budget which requires budget journals.

If you use summary accounts, you can also define same budgetary control options for summary templates.

If an account range has an Advisory or Absolute funds check level assigned to it for a budget, it is possible to set up the same account range to have a different funds check level for different budgets.

You can define budgetary control options such as Funds Check Level, Tolerance Amounts, and Override Amounts for journal entry sources and categories using the Budgetary Control Groups window.

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