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
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- To allow comparison between budgeted and actual cost and consumption.
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| Settings
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Description
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Values
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- Title
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- Control display title
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- Custom
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- Category
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- Determines how quantitative data is aggregated
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- Retailer, Business Unit, Asset Type, etc.
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- Commodity
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- Determines the commodity for which data will be displayed
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- Energy
- Electricity
- Gas
- Trade Waste
- Water
- Wastewater
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- Metric
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- The units which consumption is displayed in
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- Electricity Cost Ex. GST($)
- Electricity Consumption (kWh)
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- Height
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- Determines the height of the table (in pixels)
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- User-Defined
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- Threshold (%)
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- The threshold percentage above which a green or red highlight will be used in the "diff" column
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- User-Defined
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- Date From
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- 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.
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- Date
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- Track By
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- Controls the length of the reporting period used
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Usage features
The budget tracking control has no interactive usage features.
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