We are getting ready to run a capital campaign for a building project, and are going to be recording revenues from the capital campaign into our Fund 2, which is temporarily restricted funds. However, our PP&E accounts are in Fund 4, so expenditures from the building project, once we get started...

Does anyone have experience using attributes to refine the budgeting process? Our management would like us to come up with more detailed reports than our GL setup will allow for. We were wondering if using attributes would allow us to break the information down in a more detailed fashion. An example...

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Stephanie -- Welcome to FE. I was in similar shoes a little over two years ago as I accepted Controller responsibilities in an organization which had moved geographically and only the Executive Director (and one telecommuter) was retained following the move. FE and I were new to each other. I use the...

This is a little tricky to answer because the answer is somewhat a function of your use of projects in FE. However, mechanically it's not hard. Also, you didn't indicate whether or not the funds (being transferred from one project to another) are of the same kind: unrestricted, temporarily restricted...

hi folks, we have a tiny FWS award this year and i'm struggling with the accounting. the Blue Book is not exactly user friendly. from what i understand, i have to record the award as restricted income and have separate expense accounts on the GL. won't that create a net deficit at year-end since...

We're investigating using this product. What's your experience been like? Is it enough of an improvement over the budget module to justify the expense? How long was the set-up process? What did you do versus what did Blackbaud do? Roger Hendrick 630-282-2033

I'm having trouble getting my budget numbers to show on my reports. On the budget column I have chosen Original Budget 1 for my budget scenario. Any ideas?

I just set up our first grant this summer. The first step is to name one of your transactions codes (1-5) as grants (GL Configuration). Then go to table entries in GL to add a new table entry = to your grant name. Then you add a grant under GL Records. When you have entries associated with the grant...

In A/R we entered a deposit. The amount of the deposit was correct, however, the G/L distribution doubled the amount of the deposit. Before we had fixed this problem we reconciled the bank statement for the month the deposit was made. As a result we cannot post this deposit because it is out-of balance...