Strong budgetary control is vital to social/human service agencies. Overspent grants usually are not allowed so prevention is critical. All of the expense that is generated out of payroll and accounts payable plus miscellaneous journal entries get reflected in the Budgets and Expense System automatically. Budgets can be reviewed on line in real time or through very comprehensive reporting that essentially provides a complete statement of income and expense for every grant and for all grants summarized by the agency as a whole.
The online budgets allow authorized users to look a any line item and with the stroke of a key expand expense totals into the detail transactions that make up that total. The security system also controls who can have access to budgets and can restrict managers to only be able to view their own budgets.