How to Use Report Level of {Object} or {Object Rollup} in Custom Report or Custom Budget Entry Form definitions


Dynamic Budgets can do side by side comparisons of a single budget account to the sum of multiple accounts grouped by either the Object code or the ObjectRollup code as specified in Manage Objects.


The report level options of Object and Object Rollup were developed as a solution for organizations which needed to be able to compare the budgeted value of a primary GL code to the total of a group of sub-accounts found in the actuals.


Examples:


Object Report Level Example:


Company Budgets to a default Account-Subaccount for Total Sales    (Sales-000)
and records actuals to (Sales-Region) 


Budget

Actuals

Sales-000 

Sales-NW

Sales-South

Sales-Central

GL Code=Sales - 000, Object=Sales

Object=Sales

 


ObjectRollup Report Level Example:


Company Budgets each department’s total T&E expense to a single Account-Subaccount (Travel-111)
and records actuals to various Account-Employee Initials combinations


Budget

Actuals

Travel-111

Airfare-ABC

Airfare-KBS

Airfare-JLM

Lodging-ABC

Lodging-KBS

Lodging-JLM

Ground Transportation-ABC

Ground Transportation-KBS

Ground Transportation-JLM

GL Code = Travel-111, ObjectRollup=”T&E”

ObjectRollup=”T&E”

 

 

In either Define Custom Budgets Entry Forms or Define Custom Reports you must specify at least one column (Column Formats) to use the report level GL Code.


In the below example the data entry column for FY15 Budget was set to GL Code and the FY14 Actuals column was set to report level of Object.


(If no columns are set to Report Level of GL Code, no accounts will report at all)