Program Description
This program can be located on the General Ledger Reports menu (GL-4-8). This report shows a comparison of the budget set up by the user and the actual expenses in a particular account. This can be done for month-to-date and year-to-date totals. Also shown on the report is variance and percentage of the difference between the budget and actual expenses.
Rev 13 Changes
Program changes have been made to accommodate quad math.
There is also the ability to allow the user to enter Shift-6 (^) to return to a previous field.
The user is also able to enter a forward slash (/) to end out of the program and return to the previous menu.
There is also the ability to press the ESC key to interrupt the program and return or the previous menu.
In addition, all general ledger account numbers are now able to run and totals have repositioned to allow them to print entirely.
Results
The following fields are described below:
ACTUAL
This is the net change for the fiscal month requested for month to date, and the net changed for the year to date figure.
BUDGET
This is the budget amount for the fiscal month and the total budget for the year to date requested.
VARIANCE
This is the Actual Net Change minus the Budget amount.
PCT
Variance / actual rounded to one decimal place. On the grand total, if the number is large (greater than 20,000,000.00) the calculation is (variance / 100) rounded / (actual / 100) rounded.
The following screen describes the same account number (100100) in Chart of Accounts File Maintenance:
