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BUDGET Statement

The BUDGET statement is optional. You use it to manually introduce budget figures to CA JARS and compare them to actual costs for a given period of time. Budget figures may be associated with a specific job or with any summarization level (account, department, project, and so forth).

Each BUDGET statement introduced is formatted into an accounting record that is 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 one step job similar to those generated by CREDIT and DEBIT statements.

The budget amount, in dollars, is carried by CA JARS and made available for display as DE ID 81 in the Sequenced Output Data Elements Table. The difference between the budget amount and the total charge (DE ID 46) can be displayed at any level as the over-under budget figure, DE ID 82. The percent budget spent, DE ID 83 can reflect what percent of the budget amount has been spent at any display level.

The following example shows a typical BUDGET statement setup:

position   1         2         3         4                7         8
  1........0.........0.........0.........0....     .......0.........0
  ABUDGET  6        AAA             9809                       125000

This BUDGET statement for Report A is to be applied against CPU identification 6. The account number AAA, is assumed to be in the first three characters of the accounting fields information. The current September budget control report is to reflect a $125,000 budget for account AAA. Note that the budget amount field on the BUDGET statement is in dollars format with no cents.