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•   Financial Management
  •   Plan and Control Budgets

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IBM® Tivoli® Usage and Accounting Manager includes a budget function that is helpful in determining if the revenue will be available to cover expected spending. Using IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager's powerful budgeting feature, you can establish budgets by dollar amount or utilization for the individual resources used and/or all resources used by a client. These budgets will allow users to report on client vs. budget information.

IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager's web reporting system includes reports that you may use as templates to create custom account level and resource level budget reports for your organization. For more information about IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager's budget reports, see the ITUAM Web Reporting User's Guide.

The IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager's web based reporting provides two specific budget reports. The "Account Budget for Period and YTD Report" provides actual, budget charges by account code for the parameters selected. This report includes totals for the calendar period selected and year-to-date.

The second budget report ("Line Item Budget for Period and YTD Report") provides similar information to the "Account Budget for Period and YTD Report" but at the individual line item (Rate Code) level.

More information about how to create, edit or delete budget tables can be found in the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager User Guide version 5. , "Chapter 3, section Setting Up Client Budgets" and IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Web Reporting Guide version 5.1 , Appendix A , "Account Budget for Period and YTD Report, and Line Item Budget for Period and YTD Report".

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