About correcting budget edit errors

You will receive an error message any time a commitment or encumbrance exceeds the budget for an account for which budget edits are set up. Because commitments and encumbrances can originate in many different Lawson applications and follow different paths, the process for correcting a budget error is not the same for each transaction. There are four ways to correct budget error messages:

1. Reduce the amount of the obligation in the application where the commitment or encumbrance originated.

2. Move the obligation to a different posting account in the application where the commitment or encumbrance originated.

   Note: You can use the Copy option on Define Budget Journal (FB40.2) to copy an existing budget journal entry, and then make any necessary changes.

   See Copying a budget journal entry.

3. Move the budgeted amounts to different posting accounts in the Budgeting application. Use the Budget Entry form (FB20.x) you created your budget on to move budget amounts. See Defining a basic budget. For summary budget editing, you can re-define your budget edit group. See Defining budget edit groups.

4. Turn off the budget editing flag for the selected account on Accounting Units-Accounts (GL20.1). See the General Ledger User Guide.