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Budgets on Cost Codes for Projects

Add and edit Budgets for Cost Codes that belong to Projects. This allows you to view budgets and variances of costs for the budgets for these Projects.

Introduction

Adding a new Cost code with a budget

Update the budget for a Cost code by editing the Initial value

Update the budget for a Cost code by adding a Variation

Update budgets for Cost codes by exporting, editing and importing a spreadsheet

Review Cost code budgets

Cost code budget detail for a Project

Export Project / Cost code budgets

View and Import Variations


Introduction

When adding or updating Cost codes, you may add figures to manage the budget for a Project.

You may also update an existing budget, or add a variance to it. This can be done for individual Cost codes, or for multiple Cost codes via the export/edit/import tool.

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Adding a new Cost code with a budget

 
When creating a new Cost code, you are able to add a budget amount for the Cost code.

  • Go to Administration > Cost codes.
  • Add details for the Code, Description, Cost type, Project code, General ledger code and Budget amount.
  • Click Confirm.

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Update the budget for a Cost code by editing the Initial value

You can edit the budget for a Cost code by editing the initial value.

 

Editing the budget this way does not show as a budget variation. You'd use this option when you want to change the initial budget values, rather than retain the initial budget and show a variation.

 

Note: Only Users with an administration Security Role are able to edit the Initial budget values.

Users without this role may enter Variations.

 

  • Select the Cost code and double click it to edit.
  • Edit the Initial Budget field for your new total budget amount.
  • Click Confirm.

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Update the budget for a Cost code by adding a Variation

If you're editing an existing Cost code you can update the budget by adding a variation to the initial budget amount.

Budget variations will be shown separately to the initial budget amount, and the sum of the initial budget and the variations will be shown as the Revised budget amount.

You might choose to add a budget variation when you want to retain the initial budget value and also show the variation. A variation might arise from changes in pricing or a change to the project.

  • Select the Cost code and double click to edit.
  • Click Variations.

The value of any existing variations will be displayed beside the Variations button.

 

In the next screen:

  • Enter the amount of the budget variation.
  • Enter a Code and Description.
  • Click Add.
  • Click Close.
  • Click Confirm.

You may add multiple variations if required, and these will then display as individual lines below the input section of the screen. The Revised budget will be the sum of the Initial budget and all variations.


The total amount of variations will display on the previous screen.


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Update budgets for Cost codes by exporting, editing and importing a spreadsheet

A quick way to update budgets for multiple Cost codes is to export Costcodes, creating a spreadsheet. Edit the spreadsheet to update the budget figures and re-import it.

  • Go to Administration > Cost codes.
  • Click Export / Import and select Export to spreadsheet.

 

This will create a spreadsheet file and place it in your downloads folder.

You can update the value for Initial Budget and Revised Budget. The one you choose to update may depend on whether you need to make a correction to an Initial Budget value, or whether you need to revise the budget due to a change in the project.

  • Open the file, and update either the InitialBudget column to change the Initial Budget, or the RevisedBudget column to change the Revised Budget, for those Cost codes that you wish to update.
  • Save the changes to your spreadsheet.
  • Go back to the Cost codes screen and click Export / Import and select Import from spreadsheet.
  • Browse for your spreadsheet, or drag it to the screen.
  • Click Upload.
  • You will see a message Import successful

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Review Cost code budgets

In the Projects screen, you can view the budgets and variations.

  • Go to Projects.
  • Select the Project you wish to review, and select the Details tab.

This will display the budget and variation figures for that Project in the Costing section of the screen. Figures for the Initial budget, Variations and Revised budget are displayed.

The Committed value is taken from any Purchase orders that have been raised against that Project / Cost code. Once that Purchase order has been invoiced, the value is moved from Committed to Spent.

 

 

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Cost code budget detail for a Project

You can review the budget details by Cost code for the Project.

  • Go to  Projects.
  • Select the Project you wish to review, and select the Cost codes tab.

This displays a summary for the Project in the top part of the screen and below that is one line for each Cost code on that Project.

Values for Budget, Variation and Revised budget are displayed as well as Committed, Spent and Remaining.

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Export Project / Cost code budgets

The details for the Project / Cost codebudgets can be exported to a spreadsheet.

  • Click Export / Import and select Export to Spreadsheet

This will create the spreadsheet in your downloads folder, allowing you to report further on your Costs to Budgets figures for a Project.

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View and Import Variations

To read more about the Variations view and import screen, please click Budget Variations Import and View.

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Last updated: 14 April 2023