Working with Department Budget Controls

Working with Department Budget Controls (Last Updated: 7/25/2018)

In order to understand your budgets, it is important to know where the budget is controlled. The UGA Financial Management System classifies departments into three types.

• Control Departments do not allow transactions and control the budget for its child department(s).
• Transactional Departments allow transaction entry but the budget is controlled by the next level up.
• Transactional and Control Departments control budgets and allow transaction entry

The DEPT_PRNT budget ledger is set as the control budget ledger for non-project/grant related expenditures. There is a set of Control Chartfields which is where the budget is defined. For the non-project/grant related expenditures these control ChartFields differ based on the funds you are using.