
#You need a budget tutorial password
Assign a password to each budget organization to restrict access to budget account balances. If you are using budgetary control, you set the budgetary control requirements for an account within its budget organization. You can also define one general budget organization that includes all accounts. Define budget organizations to represent the departments, cost centers, divisions, or other groups for which you enter and maintain budget data. This enables you to track budgeted amounts against a control budget. You can create budget hierarchies by assigning a master budget to lower-level budgets. You can create as many budget versions as you need for a set of books. Define a budget to represent specific estimated cost and revenue amounts for a range of accounting periods.

Alternatively, you can import budget amounts in your functional currency, then translate the amounts to your reporting currency.ġ.

If you need your budget amounts in a reporting sets of books, you must log in to General Ledger using the reporting set of books' responsibility, define your budget in the reporting set of books, then enter your budget amounts in the reporting currency. Note: If you use Multiple Reporting Currencies, budget amounts and budget journals are not converted to your reporting currencies. General Ledger gives you a variety of tools to create, maintain, and track your budgets, including the ability to upload budget amounts from your spreadsheet software.

You can use these estimated amounts to compare actual balances with projected results, or to control actual and anticipated expenditures. Use budgeting to enter estimated account balances for a specified range of periods. Overview of Budgeting (Oracle General Ledger Users' Guide)
