How do I switch budgeting methods?

CAUTION: Switching budget methods may result in your existing budget values being removed. We strongly recommend you take a backup of your data before switching budgeting methods.

Effect of changing budgeting method

Changing your budgeting method affects your budgets as explained in the table below:

From	To	Impact
Standard	Advanced: Nominal Code	Any budgets entered are retained.
	Advanced: Dept. Overview	Budgets are combined and assigned to the relevant nominal category based on the default budgeting chart of accounts in department 000
	Advanced: Dept. In Depth	Do you want to copy existing nominal budget values to department 0? Yes - Budget and actual values are copied into department 000 No - Creates a blank set of budget information
Advanced: Nominal Code	Advanced: Dept. Overview	Do you want to copy existing nominal budget values to department 0? Yes - Budget and actual values are copied into department 000 No - Creates a blank set of budget information.
	Advanced: Dept. In Depth	Do you want to copy existing nominal budget values to department 0? Yes - Budget and actual values are copied into department 000 No - Creates a blank set of budget information.
	Standard	Any budgets entered are retained.
Advanced: Department Overview	Advanced: Dept. In Depth	Budgets are deleted and replaced with a blank set.
	Advanced: Nominal Code	Budgets are deleted and replaced with a blank set.
	Standard	Any departmental or advanced budgets are removed and replaced with any original budget figures entered.
Advanced: Department In Depth	Advanced: Dept. Overview	Budgets are combined and assigned to the relevant nominal category based on the default budgeting chart of accounts.
	Advanced: Nominal Code	Retains budget information combining departmental values by nominal code together.
	Standard	Do you wish to copy your Departmental Budget information to your Nominal Budget? Yes - Copies and combines all department budget info to nominal budgets. No - Reverts to original budget information if this was entered before the switch.

Switch budgeting methods

Click Settings then click Company Preferences and click the Budgeting tab.
Click the Budgeting Method drop-down, and choose from the following:
- Standard - To maintain basic monthly budgets against individual Nominal Accounts.
- Advanced - To select an advanced budget type.
If you selected the Advanced budgeting method, from the Budgeting Type drop-down choose from the following:
- Nominal Code - This allows you to maintain basic monthly budgets against individual Nominal Accounts, similar to the Standard budgeting method, but with extra benefits that include being able to enter a budget for the following year, known as the forecast year.
- Department Overview - This allows you to maintain monthly budgets against departments analysed by nominal categories. Nominal categories are the accounting areas used to group your nominal codes, for example, Sales or Purchases.
- Department In-Depth - The allows you to maintain monthly budgets against departments broken down by nominal codes. This method gives you the most detailed analysis when it comes to budgeting.
Click the Chart of Accounts drop-down and choose the chart of accounts that you want to be used by default within the advanced budgeting option.
Click OK.