The IMS Interface › Executing the Wizard Report Writer › Control Statements › BUDGET Statement

BUDGET Statement

The BUDGET statement, identified by the statement type BUDGET, is optional. It provides a mechanism by which you may introduce budget figures to the Wizard Report Writer and compare them to actual costs for a given period of time. Budget figures may be associated with a specific transaction or with any summarization level (such as account, department, project).

Each BUDGET statement introduced to the Wizard Report Writer is formatted into an accounting record to be sorted and reported on as any other input. All BUDGET statement fields are formatted to corresponding fields according to the Basic Accounting Table. For processing purposes, the record is treated as a transaction.

The date and time fields are processed the same way as those on the CREDIT and DEBIT statements.

The budget amount field, in whole dollars, is carried through by the Wizard Report Writer and made available for display via the Output Data Elements Table. The difference between the budget amount and the total charge can be displayed at any level, as can the over-under budget figure. The percent budget spent can show what percentage of the budget amount has been spent at any display level.