Enabling Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting

To use Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting, you must first enable the functional area under the Financials offerings.

This will allow you to configure your enterprise, ledger, and business options in the Manage Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting task. In addition, this ensures your enterprise is using the newest feature functionality for the product.

Here's how you enable it.

1. Navigate to Functional Setup Manager.

2. Select Financials from the drop-down list.

3. Then click Actions and select Go to Offerings.

4. Click the Opt In Features button.

5. Select Financials from the Opt In drop-down list if it didn't default.

6. Scroll down to the Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting functional area record.

7. Select the Enable checkbox to enable the functional area.

8. Click Done.

9. Now when you select Financials in an Implementation Project, you will see Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting.