Budgets for MDA

Enhance your Analysis with Budgeting

Budgets for MDA is a Nolan Computers add-on developed for Microsoft Great Plains. It acts in a similar manner to the standard account budgets, but works with MDA groups and codes instead of just accounts.

Any number of budgets can be created and maintained. For each analysis group for each budget, the budget amounts and quantities can be held at either the analysis group level, or at analysis code level. At either level, budgets figures can also be kept at account level. Budgets can also be set to preliminary which allows you to experiment with various calculations.

There are seven calculation methods for budgets. These methods will act at either the group level, or the code level, depending on which level the current analysis group is budgeted at. If the current analysis group is being budgeted at code level, a restriction on which codes the method applies to can be made. For certain methods, budget or balance figures can be taken from either MDA, or from account balances and budgets.

Several reports are also available in Budgets for MDA. The Budget Summary report displays budget figures, the Budget vs. Actual and Budget vs. Actual Account reports compare budget amounts next to actual amounts, and the Budget Analysis report which compares the budget versus actual amounts for the current period and year-to-date.