Maintaining Scenarios

You use the Scenario Manager—Account Scenarios tab to create, delete, and edit scenarios.

  To create or maintain scenarios:

  1. Access Scenario Manager.

    See Accessing the Scenario Manager.

  2. Select Account Scenarios.

    The Scenario Manager dialog box displays the scenarios in a model. Base and Actual are default scenarios:

    • Base—contains the original inputs of each account.

    • Actual—isolates actual data.

    Note:

    The accounts for the Base and Actual scenarios cannot be edited.

  3. Perform an action:

    • To create a scenario, click New. See Creating Scenarios.

    • To rename a scenario, in Scenarios, select a scenario, and click Rename.

    • To delete a scenario, in Scenarios, select a scenario, and click Delete.

    • In Comments, enter comments about the scenario.

  4. In Scenarios, select a scenario.

  5. In Scenario Type, select a type.

  6. Optional: In Use Actuals, indicate if and when to compare actual and budged forecast data.

  7. In Accounts, select the accounts that should be specific to that scenario.

  8. Optional: Select Show only selected accounts to hide deselected accounts.

  9. Click OK.