Finance

The Finance app allows you to create fund structures and manage money.

Definitions of terms used in the Finance app:

  • Acquisition units. An additional layer you can add to acquisitions records that restricts a user’s ability to interact with those records unless they have been assigned to that unit. For example, you may create acquisition units to represent the different libraries within your library system. Units are defined and determined by your library in the Settings app. See Settings > Acquisition units for more information.
  • Amount allocated. The amount of money assigned to a fund at the start of a fiscal year. Additional money can also be allocated during the year.
  • Budget. A finance record that describes the amount of money available for a fiscal year within a fund that includes a definition of the allowed expenditure percentage and allowed encumbrance percentage. Transfer and allocation transactions are performed against a budget. Expense classes can be assigned to a budget.
  • Encumbrance. An amount of money that the library commits to pay to a vendor from a fund’s budget for ordered materials that are invoiced in the future.
  • Expense class. A fiscal entity used to track transactions against a specific purpose or function within a Fund. Optional, tenant-defined, and can be assigned to one or more funds. Applied to order lines and invoice lines during fund distribution. Each fund can support multiple expense classes.
  • Fiscal year. The twelve-month period your library uses to manage its finances.
  • Fund. A fiscal entity used to track transactions against a general purpose or function within a ledger. Funds are associated with only one ledger. Fund information persists from year to year as new budgets are created for the fund each year.
  • Group. A collection of one or more funds grouped together.
  • Ledger. A collection of funds that need to be kept fiscally separate from another ledger’s collection of funds. All funds within a ledger share future fiscal year rollover behavior.
  • Net transfers. Money transferred between funds during a fiscal year.

Permissions

The permissions listed below allow you to interact with the Finance app and determine what you can or cannot do within the app. You can assign permissions to users in the Users app. If none of these permissions are assigned to a user, they are unable to see the Finance app or any related information.

Finance permissions:

  • Finance: Assign acquisition units to new record. This permission allows the user to assign acquisition units to the record when creating a new record.
  • Finance: Create allocations. This permission allows users to create allocation transactions against budgets. Must include view and edit fund and budget permissions.
  • Finance: Create transfers. This permission allows users to create transfer transactions against budgets. Must include view and edit fund and budget.
  • Finance: Execute fiscal year rollover. This permission allows the user to execute fiscal year rollover.
  • Finance: Manage acquisition units. This permission allows users to change the assignment of acquisition units for the record when editing a record.
  • Finance: Manually release encumbrance. This permission allows the user to release an encumbrance from a fund using the Release encumbrance action on the budget transaction log.
  • Finance: View fiscal year. This permission allows searching and viewing of fiscal year records.
  • Finance: View fund and budget. This permission allows the user to search and view funds and budgets.
  • Finance: View group. This permission allows the user to search and view groups.
  • Finance: View ledger. This permission allows the user to search and view ledgers.
  • Finance: View, edit fiscal year. This permission allows the user to view and edit fiscal years.
  • Finance: View, edit fund and budget. This permission allows the user to view and edit funds and budgets.
  • Finance: View, edit group. This permission allows the user to view and edit groups.
  • Finance: View, edit ledger. This permission allows the user to view and edit ledgers.
  • Finance: View, edit, create fiscal year. This permission allows the user to view, edit, and create fiscal years.
  • Finance: View, edit, create fund and budget. This permission allows the user to view, edit, and create funds and budgets.
  • Finance: View, edit, create group. This permission allows the user to view, edit, and create groups.
  • Finance: View, edit, create ledger. This permission allows the user to view, edit, and create ledgers.
  • Finance: View, edit, delete fiscal year. This permission allows the user to view, edit, and delete fiscal year.
  • Finance: View, edit, delete fund and budget. This permission allows the user to view, edit, and delete funds and budgets.
  • Finance: View, edit, delete group. This permission allows the user to view, edit, and delete groups.
  • Finance: View, edit, delete ledger. This permission allows the user to view, edit, and delete ledgers.

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts allow you to perform actions in this app using the keyboard. See Platform essentials > Keyboard shortcuts for more information.

Creating a fiscal year

A fiscal year is the twelve-month period your library uses for accounting and budgetary purposes. In FOLIO, a fiscal year serves as the basis for the entire fund structure and its parts.

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Fiscal year.
  2. In the Fiscal year pane, click New.
  3. In the Create fiscal year window, enter all required information for the fiscal year. For more information on the fields and actions available in this section, see the descriptions below.
  4. Click Save & Close. The fiscal year is saved.

Fiscal year information

  • Name (required). The name of the fiscal year. A suggested naming convention is the term “Fiscal Year” followed by the numeric year. For example, Fiscal Year 2021.
  • Code (required). The code must be an alpha followed by a four-digit number. It can be based on name and year. For example, FY2021.
  • Acquisition units. If you only want particular users within certain acquisition units to be able to edit the fiscal year, enter or select the Acquisition units from the drop-down list. You can select multiple units. If blank, any users with the appropriate permissions are allowed to edit the fiscal year information. For more information, see Settings > Acquisition units
  • Period Begin Date (required). The date when the fiscal year begins.
  • Period End Date (required). The date when the fiscal year ends.
  • Description. A description of the fiscal year.

Creating a ledger

A ledger is a collection of funds that need to be kept fiscally separate from another ledger’s collection of funds. Multiple ledgers can be associated with a fiscal year and each ledger can persist in future fiscal years. A fund can be associated with only one ledger.

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Ledger.
  2. In the Ledger pane, click New.
  3. In the Create ledger window, enter all required information for the ledger. For more information on the fields and actions available in this section, see the descriptions below.
  4. Click Save & Close. The ledger is saved.

Ledger information

  • Name (required). Name of the ledger. For example, Law Library.
  • Code (required). User-created, based on name.
  • Fiscal year one (required). The first fiscal year for the ledger. Ledgers can continue to be used for multiple fiscal years. If the fiscal year does not appear in the list, you can click New fiscal year to create a new one.
  • Status (required). Select the status of the ledger: Active, Frozen, or Inactive. Active means the ledger is ongoing, Frozen means the ledger has been put on pause, and Inactive means the ledger is no longer in use.
  • Acquisition Units. If you only want particular users within certain acquisition units to be able to edit the ledger, enter or select the Acquisition units from the drop-down list. You can select multiple units. If blank, any users with the appropriate permissions are allowed to edit the ledger’s information. For more information, see Settings > Acquisition units.
  • Description. A description of the ledger.

Creating a group

Groups categorize funds and bring multiple funds together as a single group regardless of fiscal year or ledger. This enables the total amount available or allocated across multiple funds to be summarized by group, ledger, or fiscal year.

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Group.
  2. In the Group pane, click New.
  3. In the Create group window, enter all required information for the group. For more information on the fields and actions available in this section, see the descriptions below.
  4. Click Save & Close. The group is saved.

Group information

  • Name (required). Name of the group. For example, History.
  • Code (required). User-created, based on name.
  • Status (required). Select the status of the group: Active, Frozen, or Inactive. Active means the group is ongoing, Frozen means the group has been put on pause, and Inactive means the group is no longer in use.
  • Acquisition units. If you only want particular users within certain acquisition units to be able to edit the group, enter or select the Acquisition units from the drop-down list. You can select multiple units. If blank, any users with the appropriate permissions are allowed to edit the group’s information. For more information, see Settings > Acquisition units.
  • Description. A description of the group. For example, you may want to include why the group was created and the relation between the different funds.

Creating a fund

Funds show information regarding an ongoing ledger with a budget for the current fiscal year. There can be many funds in a ledger and many funds can be placed in a group.

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Fund.
  2. In the Fund pane, click New.
  3. In the Create fund window, enter all required information for the fund. For more information on the fields and actions available in this section, see the descriptions below.
  4. Click Save & Close. The fund is saved.

Fund information

  • Name (required). Name of the fund.
  • Code (required). User-created, based on name.
  • Ledger (required). Select the ledger associated with the fund.
  • Status (required). Select the status of the fund: Active, Frozen, or Inactive. Active means the fund is ongoing, Frozen means the fund has been put on pause, and Inactive means the fund is no longer in use. Note: The fund must be active to successfully open an order or for an invoice to be fully paid.
  • Type. A category to describe the fund. Fiscal year rollover of funds is often defined by fund type, so definition of the type values should consider fiscal year rollover requirements. For example, endowment, or restricted. For more information about creating fund types, see Settings > Finance > Fund types.
  • Acquisition units. If you only want particular users within certain acquisition units to be able to edit the fund, enter or select the Acquisition units from the drop-down list. You can select multiple units. If blank, any users with the appropriate permissions are allowed to edit the fund’s information. For more information, see Settings > Acquisition units.
  • Group. To associate this fund with a group, select the group from the drop-down list. You can assign multiple groups. See Creating a group for more information.
  • Transfer from. To allow transfers to this fund from any other fund, leave this field blank. To restrict transfers to this fund, enter or select the allowed funds from the drop-down list. You can select multiple funds.
  • Transfer to. To allow transfers from this fund to any other fund, leave this field blank. To restrict transfers from this fund, enter or select the allowed funds from the drop-down list. You can select multiple funds.
  • External account (required). The identifier for this account in an external financial system.
  • Description. A description of the fund. For example, you may want to include the purpose of the fund.

Creating a new budget

A budget is a finance record that describes the amount of money available for a fiscal year within a fund. You can create a current or planned budget for a fund from the fund details pane. You cannot create a planned budget until there is an upcoming fiscal year in the fiscal year series associated with the Ledger.

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Fund.
  2. Find the fund to which you want to add a budget and select it.
  3. In the fund details pane, in the Current budget or Planned budget section, click New.
  4. In the Current budget or Planned budget dialog, enter all the required information for the budget. For more information on the fields and actions available in this window, see the descriptions below.
  5. Click Save. The budget is saved.
Budget information
  • Fiscal year (required). For a current budget, this value is defaulted to the current fiscal year value.
  • Status (required). Select the status of the budget: Active, Closed, Frozen, Inactive, Planned. Active means the budget is open, Closed means the budget is closed, Frozen means the budget has been put on pause, Inactive means the fund is no longer in use, and Planned means the budget is assigned to a future fiscal year. Note: The budget must be active to successfully open an order or for an invoice to be approved and paid.
  • Allowable expenditure percentage. The percentage of the budget balance allowed for expenditures. Leave this field blank to allow unrestricted expenditures. A value of 100 restricts expenditures to the available balance. A value greater than 100 allows expenditures beyond the available balance. A value of 0 restricts expenditures to 0.
  • Allowable encumbrance percentage. The percentage of the budget balance allowed for encumbrances. Leave this field blank to allow unrestricted encumbrances. A value of 100 restricts encumbrances to the available balance. A value greater than 100 allows encumbrances beyond the available balance. A value of 0 restricts encumbrances to 0.
  • Allocated (required). Enter a numeric value of money to initially allocate to the budget. Values with or without decimals are accepted (100 or 100.00). To create a budget without allocated money, enter a value of 0. Inputting a value of 0 doesn’t generate an allocation transaction. An initial allocation can be made after creating the budget. For more information, see Allocating money to a budget.

Adding expense classes to a budget

  1. Find the fund to which you want to add an expense class and select it.
  2. In the Budget details window, click Actions > Edit.
  3. In the Expense classes section, click Add expense class.
  4. Select an expense class from the drop-down list. See Settings > Finance > Expense classes for more information about creating expense classes.
  5. Click Save & close. A confirmation message appears and the expense class is saved.

Searching for a fiscal year, ledger, group or fund

You can search for fiscal years, ledgers, groups, or funds by clicking on either Fiscal year, Ledger, Group, or Fund in the Search & filter pane. To search for a fiscal year, ledger, group, or fund, enter your search terms into the box when you are in the Fiscal year, Ledger, Group, or Fund pane. Select the All drop-down list to search through one of the following fields:

  • All. Searches through all fields in the drop-down list. This is the default search.
  • Name. The name of the fiscal year, ledger, group, or fund.
  • Code. A unique identifier for the fiscal year, ledger, group, or fund.

You can also search for fiscal year, ledger, group, or fund by selecting any of the filters in the Search & filter pane when in the appropriate Finance pane. The filters available vary depending on whether you are searching for a fiscal year, ledger, group, or fund. The following instructions are for searches in the Fund tab.

Ledger

To search for funds belonging to a certain ledger, follow these steps:

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Ledger.
  2. Select the ledger from the drop-down list. The funds are listed in the results pane.

Status

To filter ledgers, groups, or funds by their status, select one of the following:

  • Active. Ledger, group, or fund currently used by your library.
  • Inactive. Ledger, group, or fund previously used by your library.
  • Frozen. Ledger, group, or fund that is paused.

Type

To search for funds by type, follow these steps:

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Type.
  2. Select the fund type from the drop-down list. The funds are listed in the result pane.

Group

To search for funds assigned to a group, follow these steps:

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Group.
  2. Select the group from the drop-down list. The funds are listed in the result pane..

Acquisition units

To search for fiscal years, ledgers, groups, or funds assigned with a specific acquisition unit, follow these steps:

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Acquisition units.
  2. Select the acquisition unit from the drop-down list. The search results appear in the Fiscal year, Ledger, Group, or Fund pane.

Tags

To search for funds assigned with specific tags, follow these steps:

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Tags.
  2. Select the tag(s) from the drop-down list. Your results appear in the Fund pane.

Viewing fiscal year, ledger, group, fund, and budget details

The type of information displayed in your search results depends upon the type of search performed (fiscal year, ledger, group, or fund). That information can include:

  • Name. The name of the fiscal year, ledger, group, fund, or budget record.
  • Code. A unique identifier for the fiscal year, ledger, group, fund, or budget record.
  • Description. The purpose of the fiscal year, ledger, group, fund, or budget record.
  • Status. Whether the ledger, group, fund, or budget record is Active, Inactive, or Frozen.
  • Ledger. The ledger associated with the fund.

In the search results, click any result to view it. The fiscal year, ledger, group, or fund details pane each display additional information, including financial summaries. Funds that have a budget for the fiscal year appear on the fiscal year details pane. Funds that have a budget for the current fiscal year appear on the ledger, or group details panes. Funds without any budgets created only appear in the fund search results pane.

Viewing fiscal year details

The fiscal year details pane contains fiscal year financial summary information and all ledgers, groups, and funds associated with a fiscal year.

  • To view fiscal year details, find the fiscal year you want to view and select it. The fiscal year details pane appears.

Fiscal year information

The Fiscal year information section contains the following fields:

  • Record last updated. Date and time when the record was last updated. Click Record last updated to see the next three fields.
  • Source. Name of the user who last updated the record.
  • Record created. Date and time when the record was created.
  • Source. Name of the user who created the record.
  • Name. Name of the fiscal year.
  • Code. Code for the fiscal year.
  • Period begin date. Date when the fiscal year begins.
  • Period end date. Date when the fiscal year ends.
  • Acquisition units. All acquisition units assigned to the fiscal year.
  • Description. Description of the fiscal year.

Financial Summary

This section displays a table containing summary financial information for all fund budgets associated with the fiscal year.

Funding Information

  • Initial allocation. The amount of the first allocation made to a budget, summarized for all fund budgets for the fiscal year.
  • Total allocated. The sum of all allocation amounts across all fund budgets for the fiscal year (initial allocation plus increase in allocation minus decrease in allocation)
  • Total funding. The Total allocated amount plus the Net transfers amount. Note: For the fiscal year summary, the net transfers amount is not displayed since the system only allows transfers between budgets within the same fiscal year. Net transfer amounts will only appear on the Ledger, Group, and Budget summary tables.
  • Cash Balance. The Total funding amount minus the Expended amount.

Financial activity and overages

  • Encumbered. The sum of all encumbrance transaction amounts against all fund budgets for the fiscal year.
  • Awaiting Payment. The sum of all pending payment transaction amounts against all fund budgets for the fiscal year.
  • Expended. The sum of all payment transaction amounts minus credit transaction amounts, against all fund budgets for the fiscal year.
  • Unavailable. The total amount unavailable across all fund budgets for the fiscal year, calculated as the sum of the encumbered, awaiting payment, and expended amounts.
  • Over encumbrance. The total amount encumbered minus the total funding amount for all fund budgets for the fiscal year.
  • Over expended. The total amount expended minus the total funding amount for all fund budgets for the fiscal year.
  • Available balance. Total amount available across all fund budgets for the fiscal year, calculated as Total funding amount minus the Unavailable amount. Note: In this version of FOLIO, negative available balances display as $0. For example, if the allowed expenditure field for the budget is blank, then there are no restrictions on how much can be expended against the budget. If transactions have processed that exceed the total funding amount by $100, then the amount in the Available balance will display as $0 rather than negative ($100). Negative balance amounts will display in a future version of the system.

Ledger

This section displays a table of all ledgers associated with the fiscal year. To sort by a column, click the column name. To view details about a ledger in the table, click anywhere in the ledger’s row.

The ledger table contains the following columns:

  • Name. Name of the ledger.
  • Code. Code for the ledger.
  • Allocated. Total amount allocated across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the ledger.
  • Unavailable. Total amount unavailable across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the ledger.
  • Available. Total amount available across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the ledger.

Group

This section displays a table of all groups associated with the fiscal year. The table contains the same columns as the Ledger table.

Fund

This section displays a table of all funds associated with the fiscal year. The table contains the same columns as the Ledger table.

Viewing ledger details

The ledger details pane contains ledger financial summary information and all groups and funds associated with the ledger.

  • To view ledger details, find the ledger you want to view and select it. The ledger details pane appears.

Ledger information

The Ledger information section contains the following fields:

  • Record last updated. Date and time when the record was last updated. Click Record last updated to see the next three fields.
  • Source. Name of the user who last updated the record.
  • Record created. Date and time when the record was created.
  • Source. Name of the user who created the record.
  • Name. Name of the ledger.
  • Code. Code for the ledger.
  • Current fiscal year. The current fiscal year name. The system determines which fiscal year is current based on the current date and the period start and end dates for the fiscal year.
  • Status. Status of the ledger: Active, Inactive, Frozen.
  • Acquisition units. All acquisition units assigned to the ledger.
  • Description. Description of the ledger.

Financial Summary

Funding Information

  • Initial allocation. The amount of the first allocation made to a budget, summarized for all fund budgets for the ledger.
  • Increase in allocation. The sum of all allocation transaction amounts, not including the initial allocations, made to all fund budgets for the ledger.
  • Decrease in allocation. The sum of all allocation transaction amounts, not including the initial allocations, made from all fund budgets for the ledger.
  • Total allocated. The sum of all allocation amounts across all fund budgets for the current fiscal year that are associated with the ledger (initial allocation plus increase in allocation minus decrease in allocation).
  • Net transfers. Total net transfer amount for all fund budgets for the current fiscal year that are associated with the ledger.
  • Total funding. The Total allocated amount plus the Net transfers amount.
  • Cash Balance. The Total funding amount minus the Expended amount.

Financial activity and overages

  • Encumbered. The sum of all encumbrance transaction amounts against all fund budgets for the ledger during the current fiscal year.
  • Awaiting Payment. The sum of all pending payment transaction amounts against all fund budgets for the ledger during the current fiscal year.
  • Expended. The sum of all payment transaction amounts minus credit transaction amounts against all fund budgets for the ledger during the current fiscal year.
  • Unavailable. The total amount unavailable across all fund budgets for the ledger during the current fiscal year, calculated as the sum of the encumbered, awaiting payment, and expended amounts.
  • Available balance. Total amount available across all fund budgets for the ledger during the current fiscal year, calculated as Total funding amount minus the Unavailable amount. Note: In this version of FOLIO, negative available balances display as $0. For example, if the allowed expenditure field for the budget is blank, then there are no restrictions on how much can be expended against the budget. If transactions have processed that exceed the total funding amount by $100, then the amount in the Available balance will display as $0 rather than negative ($100). Negative balance amounts will display in a future version of the system.

Group

This section displays a table of all groups associated with the ledger. To sort by a column, click the column name. To view details about a group in the table, click anywhere in the group’s row.

The Group table contains the following columns:

  • Name. Name of the group.
  • Code. Code for the group.
  • Allocated. Total amount allocated across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the group.
  • Unavailable Total amount unavailable across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the group.
  • Available. Total amount available across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the group.

Fund

This section displays a table of all funds associated with the ledger. The table contains the same columns as the Group table.

Viewing group details

The group details pane contains group financial summary information and lists all funds and expense classes associated with the group.

  • To view group details, find the group you want to view and select it. The group details pane appears.

Group information

  • Record last updated. Date and time when the record was last updated. Click Record last updated to see the next three fields.
  • Source. Name of the user who last updated the record.
  • Record created. Date and time when the record was created.
  • Source. Name of the user who created the record.
  • Name. Name of the group.
  • Code. Code for the group.
  • Fiscal year. Name of the twelve-month period your library uses to manage its finances. The current fiscal year displays as the default. Use the drop down list to select a different fiscal year. The financial summary information displays for the fiscal year selected.
  • Status. Status of the group: Active, Inactive, Frozen.
  • Acquisition units. All acquisition units assigned to the group.
  • Description. Description of the group.

Financial Summary

Funding Information

  • Initial allocation. The amount of the first allocation made to a budget, summarized for all fund budgets for the group.
  • Increase in allocation. The sum of all allocation transaction amounts, not including the initial allocations, made to all fund budgets for the group.
  • Decrease in allocation. The sum of all allocation transaction amounts, not including the initial allocations, made from all fund budgets for the group.
  • Total Allocated. The sum of all allocated amounts across all fund budgets for the fiscal year selected that are associated with the group (initial allocation plus increase in allocation minus decrease in allocation).
  • Net transfers. Total net transfer amount for all fund budgets for the fiscal year selected that are associated with the group.
  • Total funding. The Total allocated amount plus the Net transfers amount.
  • Cash Balance. The Total funding amount minus the Expended amount.

Financial activity and overages

  • Encumbered. The sum of encumbrance transaction amounts against all fund budgets for the group during the fiscal year selected.
  • Awaiting Payment. The sum of pending payment transaction amounts against all fund budgets for the group during the fiscal year selected.
  • Expended. The sum of payment transaction amounts minus credit transaction amounts against all fund budgets for the group during the fiscal year selected.
  • Unavailable Total amount unavailable across all fund budgets for the group during the fiscal year selected, calculated as the sum of the encumbered, awaiting payment, and expended amounts.
  • Available balance. Total amount available across all fund budgets for the group during the fiscal year selected, calculated as Total funding amount minus the Unavailable amount. Note: In this version of FOLIO, negative available balances display as zero. For example, if the allowed expenditure field for the budget is blank, then there are no restrictions on how much can be expended against the budget. If transactions exceed the total funding amount by $100, then the amount in the Available balance will display as zero rather than negative ($100). Negative balance amounts will display in a future version of the system.

Fund

The Fund table contains the following columns:

  • Name. Name of the fund.
  • Code. Code for the fund.
  • Allocated. Total amount allocated across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the group.
  • Unavailable. Total amount unavailable across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the group.
  • Available. Total amount available across all funds with a budget for the fiscal year that are associated with the group.

Expense classes

The Expense classes table contains the following columns:

  • Expense class. Name of the expense class, a fiscal entity used to track transactions against a specific purpose or function within a fund.
  • Encumbered. Total amount encumbered for the expense class.
  • Awaiting payment. Total amount awaiting payment for the expense class.
  • Expended. Total amount expended for the expense class.
  • Percent of total expended. Total amount expended for the expense class as a percentage of total expended from across all expense classes for funds in the group.

Viewing fund details

The fund details pane contains fund information and all current, planned, and previous budgets as well as expense classes associated with a fund. The budget sections in the pane display total allocated, unavailable, and available by fund and expense class. To view a list of transactions for the current budget of a fund, click Actions > View transactions for current budget. See Viewing budget transactions for more information.

  • To view fund details, find the fund you want to view and select it. The fund details pane appears.

Fund information

The Fund information section contains details about the fund. For descriptions of each field in this section, see Fund information.

Current budget

This section contains a table of information about the current budget, if one exists. The current year is based on the fiscal year period and the current date/time.

Current expense classes

This section contains a table of information about expenses classes assigned to the current budget, if any exist.

Planned budget

This section contains a table of any future budgets, if any exist. An upcoming fiscal year must be created prior to creating a planned budget. See Creating a fiscal year. To create a new planned budget, click New. See Creating a new budget for more information.

Previous budget

This section contains a table of all budgets from fiscal years prior to the current fiscal year, if any exist.

Viewing budget details

The budget details window contains a summary of the budget, including funding information and financial activity and overages, and budget information.

To view budget details, follow these steps:

  1. Find the fund with the budget you want to view and select it.
  2. In the fund details pane, in the Current budget, Planned budget, or Previous budget sections, click the budget Name. The budget details window appears.

Budget summary

The Budget summary section contains the following fields:

  • Record last updated. Date and time when the record was last updated. Click Record last updated to see the next three fields.
  • Source. Name of the user who last updated the record.
  • Record created. Date and time when the record was created.
  • Source. Name of the user who created the record.

Funding Information

  • Initial Allocation. The amount of the first allocation made to the budget.
  • Increase in allocation. The sum of all allocation transaction amounts, not including the initial allocations, made to the budget.
  • Decrease in allocation. The sum of all allocation transaction amounts, not including the initial allocations, made from the budget.
  • Total Allocated. The sum of all allocated amounts for the budget (initial allocation plus increase in allocation minus decrease in allocation).
  • Net transfers. Total net transfer amount for the budget.
  • Total funding. The Total allocated amount plus the Net transfers amount.
  • Cash Balance. The Total funding amount minus the Expended amount.

Financial activity and overages

  • Encumbered. The sum of all encumbrance transaction amounts against the budget.
  • Awaiting Payment. The sum of pending payment transaction amounts against the budget.
  • Expended. The sum of payment transaction amounts minus credit transaction amounts against the budget.
  • Unavailable The total amount unavailable for the budget, calculated as the sum of the encumbered, awaiting payment, and expended amounts.
  • Available balance. Total amount available for the budget, calculated as Total funding amount minus the Unavailable amount. Note: In this version of FOLIO, negative available balances display as zero. For example, if the allowed expenditure field for the budget is blank, then there are no restrictions on how much can be expended against the budget. If transactions have processed that exceed the total funding amount by $100, then the amount in the Available balance will display as zero rather than negative ($100). Negative balance amounts will display in a future version of the system.

Budget information

The Budget information section contains the following fields:

  • Name. Budget name.
  • Status. Status of the ledger: Active, Frozen, or Inactive.
  • Fiscal start. Fiscal year start date.
  • Fiscal end. Fiscal year end date.
  • Allowable expenditure. Expenditure allowed, expressed as a percentage.
  • Allowable encumbrance. Encumbrance allowed, expressed as a percentage.
  • Transactions. Click View transactions to view budget transactions. See Viewing budget transactions for more information.

Editing a budget

  1. Find the budget you want to edit and select it.
  2. In the Budget details window, click Actions > Edit.
  3. Edit the budget.
  4. Click Save & close. A confirmation message appears and the budget is updated.

Allocating money to a budget

Use the Actions menu to allocate money to a budget. You can Increase allocation, Decrease allocation, or Move allocation.

Increasing allocation to a fund budget

  1. Find the budget to which you want to allocate money and select it.
  2. In the Budget details window, click Actions > Increase allocation.
  3. In the Increase allocation dialog, enter the following information:
  • Fund. The name of the fund to which you want to increase an allocation of money. This field displays the fund name and code for the budget you selected and is not editable. The display format is Fund name (fund code).
  • Amount (required). Enter an amount as a numeric value. Values with or without decimals are accepted (100 or 100.00). The amount must be a positive number.
  • Tags Enter or select any tags from the drop-down list to apply to the allocation transaction.
  • Description. Enter a description of the allocation increase.
  1. Click Confirm. A confirmation message appears and the increase allocation transaction is complete.

Decreasing allocation to a fund budget

  1. Find the budget to which you want to submit a decreased allocation and select it.
  2. In the Budget details window, click Actions > Decrease allocation.
  3. In the Decrease allocation dialog, enter the following information:
  • Fund. The name of the fund to which you want to submit a decreased allocation of money. This field displays the fund name and code for the budget you selected and is not editable. The display format is Fund name (fund code).
  • Amount (required). Enter an amount as a numeric value. Values with or without decimals are accepted (100 or 100.00). The amount must be a positive number.
  • Tags. Enter or select any tags from the drop-down list to apply to the decrease allocation transaction.
  • Description. Enter a description of the allocation decrease.
  1. Click Confirm. A confirmation message appears and the decrease allocation transaction is complete.

Moving allocation to another fund budget

Use the Move allocation action to move money between fund current fiscal year budgets as allocation transactions. Allocated amounts can be included in the next fiscal year allocation amount for a fund, depending on your fiscal year rollover settings . See Transferring money between funds for information about transfers to determine whether you want to move money using Move allocation or Transfer.

  1. Find the budget to which you want to move an allocation and select it.
  2. In the Budget details window, click Actions > Move allocation.
  3. In the Move allocation dialog, enter the following information:
  • From (required). Select the fund from which you want to allocate money. The display format is Fund name (fund code).
  • To (required). Select the name of the fund to which you want to allocate money. This field displays the fund name (code) with which this budget is associated. You must populate either From or To with the fund for the budget you are currently viewing.
  • Amount (required). Enter an amount as a numeric value. Values with or without decimals are accepted (100 or 100.00). The amount must be a positive number.
  • Tags. Enter or select any tags from the drop-down list to apply to the decrease allocation transaction.
  • Description. Enter a description of the allocation move.
  1. Click Confirm. A confirmation message appears and the decrease allocation transaction is complete.

Transferring money between funds

You can transfer money between the current fiscal year budgets of two funds. This action is only allowed if both the From and To funds have current fiscal year budgets. Transfers are a one-time movement of money within a fiscal year. Fiscal year rollover will not consider transfer amounts in the initial allocation amounts for new budgets.

  1. Find the budget to which you want to transfer money and select it.
  2. In the budget details window, click Actions > Transfer.
  3. In the Transfer dialog, enter the following information:
  • From (required). Select the fund from which you want to transfer money.
  • To (required). Select the fund to which you want to transfer money.
  • Amount (required). Enter an amount as a numeric value. Values with or without decimals are accepted (100 or 100.00). Negative values are accepted.
  • Tags. Enter or select any tags from the drop-down list you would like to apply to the transfer transaction.
  • Description. Enter a description of the transfer.
  1. Click Confirm. A confirmation message appears and the transfer transaction is complete.

Deleting a budget

Note: Financial structure records cannot be deleted if they have other records assigned to them. Budgets cannot be deleted once they have any type of transaction other than allocation transactions against them.

  1. Find the budget you want to delete and select it.
  2. In the Budget details window, click Actions > Delete.
  3. Click Delete in the confirmation window. A confirmation message appears and the budget is deleted.

Viewing transactions for a current budget

There are two methods to view a list of all transactions for a budget:

  1. From a fund: Find the fund for which you want to view transactions and select it to open the fund details pane. Click Actions > View transactions for current budget.
  2. From a budget: Find the budget for which you want to view transactions and select it. In the Budget details window, under Transactions, click View transactions. The budget transactions window opens listing all transactions.

Searching for budget transactions

To search budget transactions, follow these steps:

  1. To search budget transactions by amount, in the Transactions window Search & Filter pane, enter a numeric value into the search box and click Search. A list of transactions containing the amount value entered is returned.
  2. To filter results by Type, Source, Tags, or Expense class. See below for more information on the filters. Your results display in the Transactions pane.

Type

To filter transactions by Type, select one of the following:

  • Allocation. Filter transactions by type of Allocation.
  • Credit. Filter transactions by type of Credit.
  • Encumbrance. Filter transactions by type of Encumbrance.
  • Payment. Filter transactions by type of Payment.
  • Pending payment. Filter transactions by type of Pending payment.
  • Rollover transfer. Filter transactions by type of Rollover transfer.
  • Transfer. Filter transactions by type of Transfer.

Source

To filter transactions by Source, select one of the following:

  • Fiscal year. Transactions generated during the fiscal year rollover process. For example, automated allocations during fiscal year rollover, as defined in Rollover fiscal year settings.
  • Invoice. Transactions generated through invoicing, specifically transaction types of Credit, and Pending payment.
  • PO line Transactions generated from a PO line, specifically Encumbrance transaction types.
  • User. Transactions created by a user through the fund action menu, specifically Allocation and Transfer transaction types.

Tags

To filter for transactions assigned with specific tags, follow these steps:

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Tags.
  2. Select the tag(s) from the drop-down list. Your results appear in the Transactions pane.

Expense class

To filter transactions by expense class, follow these steps:

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Expense class.
  2. Select an expense class from the drop-down list. Your results appear in the Transactions pane.

Once you view budget transactions, the following columns appear in the Transactions pane search results table. Click the column name to sort by that column.

  • Transaction date. Date of the transaction.
  • Type. Transaction type: Allocation, Credit, Encumbrance, Payment, Pending Payment, or Transfer.
  • Amount. Amount for the transaction. Negative values are in parentheses.
  • From. Fund code of the fund from which a transfer was made into the budget.
  • To. Fund code of the fund to which a transfer was made from the budget.
  • Source. Fiscal year, Invoice, PO Line, or User.
  • Tags. Any tags associated with the transaction.

To view additional information about a transaction, click the transaction row in the table to open a detail pane. Each transaction type displays a different set of fields relevant to that type. See information below about the fields that display for each type.

Viewing allocation transactions

  • Record last updated. Date and time when the record was last updated. Click Record last updated to see the next three fields.
  • Source. Name of the user who last updated the record.
  • Record created. Date and time when the record was created.
  • Source. Name of the user who created the record.
  • Transaction date. Date of the transaction.
  • Fiscal year. The fiscal year for the budget.
  • Amount. Amount of the transaction. Negative values are in parentheses.
  • Source. Fiscal year or User.
  • Type. Transaction type: Allocation.
  • From. Fund name and fund code from which the allocation was made into this budget, if applicable. See Allocating money to a budget for more information.
  • To. Fund name and fund code of this budget to which the allocation was made.
  • Expense class. This field will be blank for allocation transactions since expense class designations for allocations aren’t supported by the system.
  • Tags. Any tags associated with the transaction.
  • Description. A description entered by the user when Allocating money to a budget.

Viewing credit transactions

The credit transaction detail pane contains many of the same fields as the allocation detail pane. Some fields are populated differently for credit transactions:

  • Source. Invoice number or identifier that generated this credit transaction. Click on the invoice identifier to open the Invoices app invoice detail pane for that invoice.
  • Type. Transaction type: Credit.
  • From. This field will be blank for credit transactions.
  • To. Fund name and fund code of this budget to which the credit was made.
  • Description. This field is blank for credit transactions.

Viewing encumbrance transactions

When an order containing a PO Line with a fund distribution is opened, an Encumbrance transaction against the current fiscal year budget for the fund is created. The encumbrance transaction detail pane contains many of the same fields as the allocation detail pane. Some fields are populated differently for encumbrance transactions:

  • Source. Purchase order line (PO Line) number that generated this encumbrance transaction. Click on the POL number to open the Orders app PO Line detail pane for that order line.
  • Type. Transaction type: Encumbrance.
  • From. Fund name and code for this budget to which this encumbrance was applied.
  • To. This field will be blank for encumbrance transactions.
  • Expense class. The expense class assigned to this encumbrance transaction.
  • Initial encumbrance. The amount originally encumbered by the related PO Line.
  • Awaiting payment. The amount awaiting payment.
  • Expended. The amount expended. This amount is populated after an invoice for the related PO Line is paid.
  • Status. The status of this encumbrance: Unreleased or Released. The encumbrance can be released manually by the user or automatically by the system upon payment of an invoice.
  • Description. This field will be blank for encumbrance transactions.

Releasing encumbrances manually

If you need to unencumber an order, this action is available from the transaction detail on the encumbered budget. This may be needed to manage charges related to ongoing orders. To release an encumbrance the user must have the Finance: Manually release encumbrance permission assigned.

To release an encumbrance, follow these steps:

  1. Find the transaction list for the encumbered budget. See Viewing transactions for a current budget for more information.
  2. Select the encumbrance transaction from the result list.
  3. On the encumbrance detail pane, click Release encumbrance.
  4. In the confirmation window, click Confirm for the message “Are you sure you want to release this encumbrance?” Any remaining amount will be added back to the budget.
  5. The encumbrance is released. The amount is restored to the budget and the status value on the encumbrance detail pane changes from Unreleased to Released.

Viewing payment transactions

When an invoice is paid, the existing Pending payment transaction record type value is updated from type Pending payment to type Payment. The payment transaction detail pane contains many of the same fields as the allocation detail pane. Some fields are populated differently for payment transactions:

  • Source. Invoice number or identifier that generated this credit transaction. Click on the invoice identifier to open the Invoices app invoice detail pane for that invoice.
  • Type. Transaction type: Payment.
  • From. Fund name and code for this budget to which this payment was applied.
  • To. This field will be blank for payment transactions.
  • Description. This field will be blank for payment transactions.

Viewing pending payment transactions

When an invoice is approved, a Pending payment type transaction record is created for the fund’s current fiscal year budget. The original encumbrance transaction record for a related PO Line will persist on the transaction list for the budget. The amount value of the encumbrance transaction is updated when an invoice is approved since approval of the invoice releases the pending payment amount of the encumbrance. Once an invoice is paid, the transaction’s type value is changed from Pending payment to Payment. The pending payment transaction detail pane the same fields as the payment transaction detail pane.

Viewing rollover transfer transactions

The fiscal year rollover process creates transfer transactions if the rollover settings are defined to create transfers to new fiscal year budgets.

Viewing transfer transactions

When an transfer of money is made between two funds, a Transfer transaction is created. The transfer transaction detail pane contains many of the same fields as the allocation detail pane. Some fields are populated differently for transfer transactions:

  • Source. Set to User for transfer transactions.
  • Type. Transaction type: Transfer.
  • From. Fund name and fund code from which the transfer was made into this budget.
  • To. Fund name and fund code of this budget to which the allocation was made.
  • Description. A description added by the user during the transfer.

Editing a fiscal year, ledger, group, fund, or budget records

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click the appropriate option: Fiscal year, Ledger, Group, or Fund.
  2. In the corresponding pane, select the record you want to edit.
  3. In the corresponding details pane, click Actions > Edit.
  4. Make your desired changes.
  5. Click Save & close. The record is saved and updated.

Deleting a fiscal year, ledger, group, or fund

Note: Financial structure records cannot be deleted if they have other records assigned to them.

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click the appropriate option: Fiscal year, Ledger, Group, or Fund.
  2. In the corresponding pane, select the record you want to edit.
  3. In the corresponding details pane, click Actions > Delete.
  4. In the Delete record dialog, click Delete. A confirmation message appears and the record is deleted.

Rollover fiscal year

Fiscal year rollover is initiated from the ledger detail pane. This process closes current fiscal year budgets, applies leftover amounts from the current fiscal year budgets into new upcoming fiscal year budgets based on fund type, and rolls encumbrances onto new fiscal year budgets based on order type (one-time, ongoing, and ongoing subscription). This action is applied only to the funds associated with the ledger, so rollover must be run separately for each ledger. To run fiscal year rollover, follow these steps:

  1. In the Search & filter pane, click Ledger.
  2. Use the search and filter tools, if needed, to find the ledger you want to rollover.
  3. In the ledger results pane, select the name of the ledger you want to rollover.
  4. The ledger detail pane will open. Click on the Action menu button and select Rollover.
  5. In the Rollover window, complete the form to indicate your preferences for rollover settings. For more information on the fields on the rollover screen, see the descriptions below.
  6. Save a screenshot of the completed form. The system does not currently retain a copy of the settings used for rollover, so it is recommended that you save a copy of the settings used for rollover for reference.
  7. Click the Rollover button to initiate fiscal year rollover for this ledger.
  8. Click Confirm. Wait for the process to complete, as indicated by the blue progress bar. When complete, the “Rolling over is finished” message appears.
  9. Click Close & view ledger details to return to the detail pane for the ledger.

Fiscal year rollover information

When you select the Rollover action, the system displays the current year for the ledger at the top left of the rollover form. The current year is based on the fiscal year period and the current date/time.

If your institution runs rollover before or after the fiscal year end date, you’ll need to return to the fiscal year tab and adjust the dates of both the fiscal year you are rolling from and the upcoming fiscal year such that the current date now fits into the fiscal year you are rolling from. Remember to readjust the fiscal year dates back to the actual fiscal year dates after rollover is complete. See Editing a fiscal year, ledger, group, fund, or budget records for more information.

  • Period begin date. The fiscal year begin date for the Fiscal year selected. See Creating a fiscal year for more information about period dates.
  • Period end date. The Fiscal Year end date for the Fiscal year selected. Note: The Period end date must be greater than the current date to initiate rollover from the current year to an upcoming year.
  • Fiscal year. Select the next fiscal year. If the next fiscal year has not yet been set up, click New fiscal year to create one. See Creating a fiscal year for more information.
  • Do not restrict encumbrances. Check this box to allow encumbrance amounts on the current year budget to rollover to the upcoming year budget without restrictions based on the budget’s available amount. Leave this box unchecked if you want the system to reject any encumbrances that would exceed the available amount. For example, if your institution typically doesn’t rollover allocations and adds initial allocation amounts manually after rollover, you might want to check this box to allow current year encumbrances to be applied to the upcoming year budgets that are awaiting initial allocations.
  • Do not restrict expenditures. Check this box to allow expenditures to rollover even if the new budget has insufficient funds allocated.
  • Close all current budgets. This checkbox is selected by default and indicates that you want to close all the current fiscal year budgets as part of this rollover.

Rollover budgets

The information in this section defines rollover behavior for budgets by fund type. For more information about creating fund types, see Settings > Finance > Fund types. For each fund type listed, select the appropriate settings for each of the fields defined below. These settings will be applied to all upcoming fiscal year budgets of that fund type.

  • Rollover allocation. Check this box if you want the upcoming fiscal year budget initial allocation amount to equal the current fiscal year budget total allocation amount.
  • Adjust allocation, %. Check this box if you want the upcoming fiscal year budget initial allocation amount to equal the current fiscal year budget total allocation amount adjusted by this percentage. For example, if the current budget total allocation is $1000 and you enter two percent, the upcoming budget initial allocation value is set to $1020.
  • Rollover available. Check this box if you want the available amount of the current fiscal year budget to rollover to the upcoming fiscal year budget.
  • Add available as. Indicates whether any available amounts that are rolled over should be categorized as a Transfer or an Allocation.
  • Set allowances. Check this box to activate the Allowed encumbrance, %. and Allowed expenditure, %. fields.
  • Allowed encumbrance, %. The percentage amount to be applied to the upcoming budget’s allocated amount to calculate allowed encumbrances against funds of this fund type. To allow all encumbrances with no limit, leave this field blank. For example, if the budget’s total allocated amount is $1000 and you set an Allowed encumbrance, % of 110 percent, the system will allow payment of invoices up to $1100. Similarly, a value of 90 percent will limit expenditures to $900. Note: You can only enter a value in this field if the Set allowances checkbox is checked.
  • Allowed expenditure, %. The percentage amount to be applied to the upcoming budget’s allocated amount to calculate allowed expenditures against funds of this fund type. To allow all expenditures with no limit, leave this field blank. For example, if the budget’s total allocated amount is $1000 and you set an Allowed expenditure, % of 110 percent, the system will allow payment of invoices up to $1100. Similarly, a value of 90 percent will limit expenditures to $900. Note: You can only enter a value in this field if the Set allowances checkbox is checked.

Rollover encumbrances

The information in this section defines rollover behavior for encumbrances by order type: one-time, ongoing, or ongoing-subscription. An order is considered an ongoing-subscription if the order type is Ongoing and the Subscription checkbox is checked. See Orders > Creating an ongoing order > Ongoing order information for more information about the subscription checkbox. For each order type listed, select the appropriate settings for each of the fields defined below:

  • Rollover. Check this box if you want encumbrances for open orders of this type of order to rollover to the upcoming fiscal year budget associated with each order. Checking this box will activate the Based on and Increase by, % fields.
  • Based on. From the drop down list, select Expended to encumber the total amount that was expended during the current fiscal year or select Remaining to encumber the amount that has not yet been paid.
  • Increase by, %. Enter a value if you want to increase the encumbrance amount by a defined percentage.
Last modified May 11, 2022