Budget Tracking

The budget tracker allows actual cost and consumption to be tracked against budgets by individual account or by any grouping of accounts. The tracker highlights variances over a user-defined threshold by by month or quarter.

Configuration

Purpose	To allow comparison between budgeted and actual cost and consumption.

Settings	Description	Values
Title	Control display title	Custom
Category	Determines how quantitative data is aggregated	Retailer, Business Unit, Asset Type, etc.
Commodity	Determines the commodity for which data will be displayed	Energy Electricity Gas Trade Waste Water Wastewater
Metric	The units which consumption is displayed in	Electricity Cost Ex. GST($) Electricity Consumption (kWh)
Height	Determines the height of the table (in pixels)	User-Defined
Threshold (%)	The threshold percentage above which a green or red highlight will be used in the "diff" column	User-Defined
Date From	Controls the relative end date of the data. Data will be taken from the start of the previous year until the specified date. For example, selecting "Nov 2012" would give Data from the start of 2011 until November 2012.	Date
Track By	Controls the length of the reporting period used	Monthly Quarterly

Usage

The budget tracking control has no interactive usage features.

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