Deciding Between Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting

Review these decision points to determine which features to enable.

Decision Point	Budgetary Control Required?	Encumbrance Accounting Required?
Do you want transaction amounts from requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, receipts, and journals to be validated against a budget during transaction processing in real time?	Yes	No
Do you want journals in General Ledger to represent purchase order obligations or requisition commitments?	No	Yes
Do you want to report from General Ledger purchase order obligation or requisition commitment balances?	No	Yes
Do you want to report budget versus actual expenditures only?	No	No

Based on the decision points, you can decide to enable these features: