ASCENDER Budget allows you to:

• Change file ID
• Monitor user logon list
• Perform budget account codes inquiry
• Create a budget master table
• Delete funds
• Export Budget tables
• Import Budget tables
• Mass change account codes
• Mass increase/decrease account codes
• Mass lock/unlock funds
• Move Budget to Finance general ledger
• Move current to new file ID

In addition, the Budget application provides you with a great deal of flexibility when preparing the budget for your LEA. You can build a budget from scratch or use the current year information to generate amounts on which to base your next year budget. You have the ability to increase or decrease the values by a given percentage, or simply transfer the same amounts.

Three types of budget records are available:  requested, recommended, and approved. This allows you to analyze the requested budget and develop the recommended budget for next year without affecting the current year budget or the general ledger.

The available reports allow you to monitor your budget, both for verification and for presentation. The Board reports provide you with more compact, summarized reports and should be used for the presentation of the recommended budget.

Once the recommended budget has been approved, you can post the budget directly to the general ledger in the ASCENDER Finance application. This eliminates manual entry of these accounts and opening balances, assuring that the entered values are accurate.