Close a budget

Important notes before closing a budget

• A budget can be closed only after its end date has passed. 
• Once a budget is closed, it can no longer be used. Additionally, this action cannot be undone.
• The system can take up to a few hours to close a budget. It is recommended to:
  • Close budgets at the end of your business day.
  • Not do any work in Acquisitions for a few hours after closing the budget.
• Closing a budget presupposes you have created the future budget that will follow the one you are closing. See Create a budget for the next fiscal period.
• During the Close Budget process, you will need to map the funds in the budget you are closing to the next budget. This needs to be done for the following reasons:
  • To move order items that are still encumbering money to the next budget, so that the closed budget does not have any open encumbrances.
  • To move unpaid or partially paid plan order items to the next budget, so that they can be invoiced on the new budget.
  • To move items on open orders with a selected fund.
  • To move order item templates to the next budget, so that the order item template does not try to apply a closed budget to new items.
  • To move unpaid invoice items to the next budget, so that you do not expend money on a closed budget upon payment of these invoices.
  • To assign accrual mode subscription items to the next budget, so that you do not expend money on a closed budget upon payment of these invoices.
  • To move approved purchase requests with assigned funds that have not been ordered to the next budget, to remove encumbrances from the closed budget.
• Some libraries wish to avoid mapping funds to the next budget period by resolving the issues above manually. For example:
  • Invoicing and paying for items still encumbering money on the budget. To find these items, search order items by Budget Period = current budget period and Encumbrance = more than .01.
  • Invoicing and paying for plan order items that are unpaid or partially paid. To find these items, search order items for Order Type = All Types except Purchase Order, Purchase Status = All statuses except Paid.
  • Reviewing items on open orders to see if they need to be placed and received in this budget year.
  • Reviewing any approved purchase requests not yet ordered and assigning them a fund in the new budget period.
  • Deleting order item templates.
     Caution: This is not recommended, as you will have to recreate them if you do, but some libraries prefer to do this.
  • Paying unpaid invoices. To find these, search invoices by payment status = All statuses except Paid.

     Note:

    • These last steps are not required.  You can close the budget with these types of items, and they will automatically be moved to the next budget period as part of the close budget operation.

    • Accrual mode items will require mapping regardless of whether they are paid or not. If you are using accrual mode, funds on items using accrual mode will need to be mapped to the next budget period.

• Branch-based acquisitions users must have the appropriate permissions for a branch to close a budget at that branch. See About branch-based acquisitions. 

Close the current budget and transfer open encumbrances

1. (Optional) Confirm that you have paid all invoices and order items. If you have any unpaid invoices or order items:
   • Pay the invoices or order items before closing the current budget. Once the budget is closed, it can no longer be used.
     Or
   • Close the current budget and then pay the invoices or order items using the new budget.
2. In the upper right corner of the budget, click Close Budget.
3. In the Close Budget dialog, connect all the funds from the current budget (to be closed) to the future budget. In the right Fund Name column, from the list, select the new budget’s fund or start typing. Any changes to the window will be saved.

    Caution: You cannot use a disabled fund as a target fund when closing a budget. If you select a disabled fund as a target fund, the fund will be automatically removed the next time you open the Close Budget dialog.

   Fund name (current budget)	Fund code	Fund name (future budget)
   Humanities General	HG	Humanities General
   History	HG-hist	History
   Europe	HG-hist-eu	Europe

4. Click Close budget.
5. On the Close Budget warning window, click OK. The system responds "Close budget is running...". Once the system closes the budget, the future budget becomes the current budget.
6. After the Close Budget process is completed:
   • All unpaid or partially paid “plan” order items assigned to the budget being closed will be moved to the next budget.
   • All purchase order items that are still encumbering money in a fund will be moved to the next budget.
   • All unpaid invoices and invoice items assigned to the budget being closed will be moved to the next budget.
   • All order item templates using the current budget will be moved to the next budget.
   • All purchase requests that have not been ordered will be moved to the next budget.
   • All accrual mode order items and invoice items, even if they are paid,  will be moved to the next budget.