Chelan County Auditor

Budget Data Instruction

An estimated line item budget for each department has been created in the county's accounting system, Eden. The budget for each department must be entered into the accounting system so it can be wrapped up into the county-wide line item budget. Instructions on accessing these budget forms in Eden are detailed below.

Each budget in Eden is broken down into a revenue document and an expenditure document. For example, if you are responsible for the budget of two departments then you will have four budget documents to complete.

If you want to print the budget documents in Eden or export them to Excel, scroll down for instructions.

“The “Department Request” budget is your estimate, so please correct or add any changes you need in these budget documents.”

Input only round numbers – do not input cents. Any line items with cents budgeted will be automatically rounded DOWN after you submit your budget estimate.

Please review every salary and benefit line to make sure they are calculated correctly. For the most part, the budgeted line items were calculated using the current position salary plus an adjustment for scheduled step increases.

Funds outside of current expense will need to estimate beginning and ending fund balances. The fund balance amounts are typically close to the amount of cash you expect to be holding that the end of the year.

Your budgets will be posted at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, September 8, 2017. Whatever amount that is in your budget at that time will be posted.

If you have questions about anything during the budget process, please contact the Auditor's Office at extension 6655.

To start entering budget information in Eden…

From the Main Menu - Select:

"Budget Preparation" folder > "Budget Document" icon
The "Budget Preparation" folder may show up under the "General Ledger" folder.

The Budget Documents screen is now active.

  1. To find your budgets click on the QBE (funnel) icon at the top of the screen.

  1. Your user name should already appear in the "Group" field. If not, type it in. Select the lightning bolt icon, which will execute your search

  1. Your first budget will appear on the screen. You can read the description to see what it is and the line items that correspond to it are below. If you wish to view your next budget, select the blue arrow that points right to view the next budget. The blue arrows will move you back and forth through all of your budgets.

  1. To edit your budget, select the pencil icon at the top of the screen, which will put you in edit mode. You can only edit Column 1 "Department Request".

  1. Now you can go through your budget and make any changes in Column 1.

  1. Once you are satisfied with your changes be sure and select the click the green check box icon at the top to save your changes.
  2. Repeat for all your budgets.

 

Printing an Edit Data

If at any time you would like to see your numbers on paper, you can print an edit report to view. If the report does not offer you enough versatility, you can export to excel for grouping, etc.

To print or export a report, do the following:

  1. From the Main Menu - Select:
  2. "Budget Preparation" folder > "Budget Document Edit List" icon

The Budget Documents Edit List QBE screen should be active.

Your user name should already appear in the "Group" Field. If you select the lightning bolt icon above you will select all of your budgets for printing/export.
 

If you want a specific fund, you can type that number in the second portion of the "Account to Update" field. For example, the Assessor would enter 010.010*. Be sure to select the lightning bolt at the top to execute the search.

Once you have selected the lightning bolt to execute your search, this screen should disappear and the "Budget Document Edit List" screen will be active.

Select the Print Preview Icon above to preview your report.

Once you are in preview mode, you can print or export the report.

To print, simply select the printer icon at the top of the screen.

To export, select the envelope with the down arrow at the top. A box will appear wanting the following:

Format Type – I would suggest "MS Excel 97-2000".

Destination – Leave this as "Disk file"

Select "OK"

You may be asked what pages. Just leave as "All" and select "OK."

You will be asked where you want to save it. Select your file name and destination and select "SAVE." The program will save your file and you can open it whenever you like.

Posted: 12/11/2014 04:04 PM
Last Updated: 07/27/2017 08:56 AM

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