Cost Accounting Software Regarding the Budgeting Process
Budget tracking and control is a key decision-support tool, so it comes as a surprise that the budgeting capabilities of most accounting suites is rudimentary at best. There are also few stand-alone budgeting packages that deliver budgeting functionality beyond budget templates designed for use in spreadsheet packages. While there are at least four different software approaches to managing budgets, some stand-alone budget packages can add value to the budgeting process by providing such features as workflow, the ability to account for many scenarios, and additional options for budget entry and reporting.
The Four Software Approaches to Budget Management
1.Built-in budget management.
Most accounting suites provide some budgeting capabilities as a function of the general ledger and some extend similar functionality to other modules, such as payables and receivables. The advantage of this approach is that the budgeting system can share existing structures in the accounting system and budgets can be easily compared to actuals because they are all stored in the same database and accessed through the same report and inquiry systems. The budgets can also be secured and audited to the same degree of depth as the actuals information.
Built-in budgeting functionality is often of a lower quality than other functions of the package and may require budgets to be created and managed like regular accounting transactions, which can be cumbersome and awkward for managing complex and high-volume budget data. And if an accounting suite offers sophisticated budgeting functionality within the appr...
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...ng a multidimensional database such as Arbor's Essbase Analysis Server or TM1 Software's TM1 Server to store and manage the budget data. Certainly if budgeting is managed within the accounting system itself, the budget data should be kept in separate tables or files than the actuals data for better performance.
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