Committed expenditure

The total approved expenditure of any outstanding purchase orders raised for an account/analysis code combination.

It represents the amount committed to spend for that account/analysis.

When a purchase order is approved, the committed expenditure is reserved from the available budget.

It remains reserved until the corresponding purchase invoice is matched to the order, at which time it is converted to an actual expenditure amount.

Committed expenditure is used as part of commitment checking in purchase orders and can also be used as part of expenditure checking in ledger entry and purchase invoices.

Note: The committed expenditure is independent of postings to the commitment ledger or to any other ledger. They are set up separately, and operate independently of each other, even though they can be configured to operate at the same time, with the same values.