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Budgetary control options for accounts determine the level of detail for funds checking. For example, you might not want to check funds or create encumbrances for transactions associated with accrual accounts, retained earnings or fund balance, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and so forth. Or you might choose not to check funds on transactions you post to the Long-Term Debt Group. In each case, these restrictions can be implemented as particular segment values or ranges of accounts.

When you import journal entries, General Ledger automatically assigns the budgetary control options for the range of accounts in which each account falls. If an account does not fall within a budget organization, General Ledger assumes the budgetary control option is None for the account.

When you create new accounts that fall within account range assignments that have a funds check level of Advisory or Absolute, General Ledger automatically maintains budget organizations. Therefore, you need not run the Maintain Budget Organization program to add new accounts to budget organizations as you must do with budgetary control disabled.

Suggestion: Even if you enable budgetary control and assign account ranges a funds check level of Advisory or Absolute, periodically run the Maintain Budget Organization program to add and delete accounts from budget organization ranges. You must also run this program when adding accounts to an account range with a Funds Check Level of None

See Also

Assigning Account Ranges to a Budget Organization

Setting Budgetary Control Options for an Account Range

Adding or Changing Individual Accounts