Every business entity, whether it is private or public, sets some financial and operational goals by creating budgets. When the budget is established, the management or responsible person monitors the activities within the budget framework. In Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012, the Budget module is redesigned to emphasize new methods for entering budget amounts and introducing budgetary controls. | Chapter 1: Budgeting CHAPTER 1: BUDGETING Objectives The objectives are: • Review the concepts of budgeting. • Set up basic budgeting. • Discuss the uses of budget control. • Define rules and specify attributes for budget control. Introduction Every business entity, whether it is private or public, sets some financial and operational goals by creating budgets. When the budget is established, the management or responsible person monitors the activities within the budget framework. In Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012, the Budget module is redesigned to emphasize new methods for entering budget amounts and introducing budgetary controls. Workflows are also introduced for Budget register entries. For example, if an approval is required for transferring a budget amount from one department to another, then workflow functionality helps to create an approval workflow. Microsoft Official Training Materials for Microsoft Dynamics® Your use of this content is subject to your current services agreement 1-1 Financials II in Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2012 Budgeting Overview The Budgeting module in Microsoft Dynamics AX allows you to set up, create, and view budgets. Budgeting can include budget control, which you can use to monitor the budget funds that are available for planned and actual purchases and expenditures. You can create budget register entries for the original budget, budget transfers, and budget revisions. In addition, you can also create budget register entries for encumbrances and pre-encumbrances for purchases and planned expenditures. Budget register entries can be created automatically when budgets are transferred to the general ledger from other modules such as Project management and accounting or Fixed assets. With the Budgeting module, you can determine which financial dimensions from the chart of accounts will be available for basic budgeting and budget control. When you configure budget control, you can define the following: • Budget .
