About this Guide

Assumed knowledge

Understanding this document is easier if you have some basic knowledge of the functionality of the various logistic LN packages and Financials.

Document summary

This document contains the following chapters:

• Financial Budgeting System: Describes the usage of Financial Budgeting System functionality.
• Static Budgeting: Provides a fixed budget on a single level of activity and describes the multi dimension budgeting procedure for defining annual budgets.
• Flexible Budgeting: Describes overview, single dimension and activity based budgeting procedure of flexible budgeting.
• Cost Accounting: Describes the usage of Cost Accounting (CAT) in controlling, single dimension controlling and activity based management procedures.
• Cost Allocation: Describes the process of identifying, accumulating, and assigning costs to costs objects. This includes allocation relations and keys setup, default allocation relations setup, consumption allocation relation setup.
• Deviations: Describes different types of deviations.
• Cost Categories: Describes the usage of cost categories.
• Integrations: Describes the integrations process that helps to import actual performances performance data from Infor ERP LN Operations Management to the Cost Accounting (CAT) to process the allocation of actual costs.

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