Release Notes: Version 5.4.4 - New Features & Enhancements

 Administrator Module

Financial Budgeting Module

Dashboard – New ‘Member Account & Component Recon’ Widget

A new dashboard widget has been added to provide a reconciliation between the Member component values and the values rolled up to the budget at cost centre and account level.


The toggle button is available for the Tabular View
 

The filter option  is available to filter by account or component values:



Layout Profile - Ratio Display Switch

The ‘Enable Ratio Display’ switch allows for the admin user to choose whether or not ratios should be displayed in each layout profile column.

The switch has been added to “Default Attributes” screen, Dimension and other Layout Profile columns, except Variance Formula and Optional fields.





Unticking the switch will not display the ratio on Client:



Bulk Delete – Search on Global Assumptions

Search boxes were added on Global Assumptions bulk delete popup:


Cross Function Access – Percentage Reallocation, Dynamic Reallocation and Internal Charge

Percentage Reallocation, Dynamic Reallocation and Internal Charge budget type accounts are now also available for cross function account selection:


User Activity Report

User Activity Report now displays the records of the last time the users used a specific module in a specific Company over a period of up to 2 years.



Financial Adjustments Module

Journals - Batch Functionality

Batch functionality allows the users to capture more than one Journal entry for the same cost centre and account combination in a specific reporting period.

The Layout Profile columns have been added so that the user is able to see the IDU Journal values and the ERP Journal Values in two separate columns in the Financial Reporting Module as well as Total both in a separate formula column.



The Journal Recalculation will roll the values from the Journal entry level up to the Layout Profile columns in the Financial Reporting module.

If ‘Month To Date’ is selected in Journal Capture – Settings:

•              The Recalc will create Actual Journal records per Reporting Period/ Cost Centre/ Currency/ Account/ Batch.

If ‘Year To Date’ is selected in Journal Capture – Settings:

•              The Recalc will aggregate the values per Reporting Period/ Cost Centre/ Account/ Currency so that you can compare last month’s total to this month’s total.


Imports added

Journal batches can also be added through “Standard Journal Batch” and “Statistical Journal Batch” imports.


Client Module

Financial Budgeting

Dashboard – New ‘Member Account & Component Recon’ Widget

A new dashboard widget has been added to provide a reconciliation between the Member component values and the values rolled up to the budget at cost centre and account level. 


The toddle button is available for the Tabular View 


The filter option  is available to filter by account or component values:



Ratio Display Switch

The ‘Enable Ratio Display’ switch allows for the admin user to choose whether or not ratios should be displayed in each layout Profile column.

Unticking the ‘Enable Ratio Display’ switch on admin will not display the ratio on Client:



Cross Function Access – Percentage Reallocation, Dynamic Reallocation and Internal Charge

Selecting the Cross Function dropdown will provide filtered access to all cost centre and account combinations which have been linked to the Cross Function security.

It has been added for Percentage Reallocation, Dynamic Reallocation and Internal Charge budget type accounts as well.



Financial Adjustments Module

Journals - Batch Functionality

Batch functionality allows the users to capture more than one Journal entry for the same cost centre and account combination in a specific reporting period.

Selecting “Add Batch” – multiple batched can be added for the cost centre and account combination.



When the user captures Journal values, those values will display on the Financial Reporting Balances page in the Financial Reporting Module:









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