SOLUTIONS
A budget records a target and its assumptions; actuals record the business outcome. A meaningful comparison requires periods, accounts, departments and currencies to mean the same thing on both sides.
Discuss your requirementsFinance teams and department managers may need budgets by project, cost centre or company. Budget management brings together entry, approval and comparison with actual records. The respective roles of ERP controls and analytical reports depend on how the organisation plans its work.
A budget may be prepared by account, cost centre, project or department. Actual records need the same dimensions for a comparison at that level. The budget structure therefore needs to relate to accounting and operational records.
A sales budget can change because of quantity, unit price or exchange rate. Changing only the total makes a later variance harder to explain. Keeping the business's assumptions separate makes the target understandable.
Expectations can change during the year. Overwriting the approved budget with the new forecast removes the original baseline. Version, period and ownership information make clear which comparison is being presented.
Budget and actuals are mapped through comparable account groups. Accruals, payments and order commitments describe different stages. If the point at which an expense counts as actual is unclear, the variance may not describe what management expects.
WORKFLOW
Preserve the approved budget version and map actuals to matching periods and accounts before analysing differences.
Logo Cloud's current options include budget control, with scope dependent on the package. BI solutions analyse and compare records. The presence of a variance dashboard does not mean that budget entry or spending approval is also managed there.
A department budget for one company and consolidated plans for several companies involve different work. Entry, approval, versions and reporting are defined separately. The existing ERP, analytics tools or an additional solution can then be assigned clear responsibilities.
They can use one system or connected tools. The approved version must reach the report correctly. The chosen products need clearly defined responsibilities for budget entry, approval and comparison.
It can meet the reporting need when budget data is already prepared and approved reliably. A process with many contributors, revisions and approvals also needs functions to manage that work.
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RELATED SOLUTION
A useful report shows where a number comes from as well as its value. Business analytics gives ERP and operational data a shared set of definitions that people can understand.
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