Understanding Budget Components

The premise of the CGI Advantage Budget Control area is that budget structures and their budget levels can be selected (or created) to meet your budget control needs.

Budget structures define the framework on which individual budgets can be established and controlled. Budget levels are the framework on which budget lines are created and maintained. Budget structures and budget levels can be configured to some degree through online setup pages; however, actions such as adding or dropping a COA element, adding a budget level, adding allotment capability, adding linking ability require application code changes.

Each of these online configuration options are discussed in the following sections.