Close-to-report review
Subledgers do not reconcile and accrual evidence is missing. Is the report ready for release review?
Explore case and packageFinance & governance · Synthetic business case
Budget forecasts and actual variance
Actual costs exceed budget. Did the forecast miss new purchase commitments?
Connect budget versions, actual expenses, purchase commitments and variance explanations by cost center and account to review forecasts.
For · Financial planning, business analysis and cost-center owners
Your path after importing
Follow the process. Check each step.
This is a walkthrough for the product. The page describes the case; calculations and business actions run inside your DataFocus project.
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Inspect linked business records
Select sample BUD-2026-V2 and inspect budget versions, cost-center accounts, actual expenses and their linked records.
- 02
Analyze risk and source evidence
Analyze overspending and missing purchase commitments against budget/forecast variance rules.
- 03
Edit source data and recalculate
Edit the budget/forecast-version source record and recalculate to compare budget-adjustment and forecast-review proposals.
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Review and track the current response
Review versions and variance explanations, progress approvals and tasks as guided, and inspect budget-response records.
Business context
Bring data, knowledge and actions together.
Use these business objects to understand the case. After importing, inspect the fields, relationships and rules, then adapt them to your work.
- Budget versions
- Cost-center accounts
- Actual expenses
- Purchase commitments
- Variance explanations
View package resources43 resources
- Business panels
- 1
- Documents
- 5
- Execution definitions
- 1
- Forms
- 15
- Knowledge resources
- 1
- Ontologies
- 1
- Relationships
- 4
- Tables
- 15
From a demo to your business
Bring a concrete question to the next conversation.
Confirm these differences before choosing the data to connect and the rules to retain. Example data and objects do not automatically connect to your production systems.
- Align budget versions, accounting periods, cost centers and accounts.
- Define how actuals, commitments and forecasts combine without double counting.
- Use existing enterprise roles and resource permissions. This package is a synthetic business example; live SAP connections and updates require separate integration and validation.