How do I view or report on my departmental budgets?
Description

When using departmental budgets, there are several ways to monitor your budgets. Let's take a look.

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Budget reports

To get to budget reports:

  1. Click Departments on the side menu.
  2. Click Reports.

The following reports are available to monitor the budget:

Department List
A list of the department reference and names.
Departmental Balance Sheet
The balance sheet for a department or range of departments.
Departmental Profit and Loss
The profit and loss for a department or range of departments.
Departmental Budget Report - In Depth
A variance report of actual values to budget values by department.
Departmental Budget Variance Report - Overview
A variance report of actual values to budget values by department.
VAT Report (Detailed)

A detailed VAT report listing the transactions that affect each box on the VAT Return, a separate listing for each department number.

This can be accessed in an existing VAT Return

  1. Click VAT then double click the VAT return.
  2. Click Print then select Detailed by department and click Run.

For more information about the departmental budget reports available in Sage 50 Accounts - Read more >


View current values

You can also monitor budgets as follows:

Budget record
To view the actual values against the planned budget for the current year and to view historical budgets for up to five previous years.
Activity
To view the transactions that make up the actuals for a department. You can choose the data range you are interested and print the results.
Department window
To view the revenue and expenses to date for a department.

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