SAP Budget Structure Element

Definition

An HR budget structure element is an object in an HR budget hierarchy.

Use

You can use budget structure elements to show the hierarchical relationships that exist in a budget hierarchy. Once you have defined the budget hierarchy, you can assign budgets to the budget structure elements in it.

These budgets represent preliminary estimates for personnel expenditure in a financial year. They are expressed in the budget currency. You use the budgets of the budget structure elements to finance persons and positions.

Structure

The attributes of a budget structure element are defined in Customizing by means of budget structure element types.

Budget structure element attributes defined by means of budget structure element types include:

• Budget units (full-time equivalents, or monetary values)

Budget units are the units in which the budgets assigned to a budget structure element are managed. The following budget models are available:

• Pooling Model
• Capacity Model (specific to Germany)

• Name

This refers to the name of the budget structure element (e.g. Personnel Expenditures, Salaries, Wages, Salaries for Civil Servants, etc.).

• Whether or not the budget can be allocated

This information determines whether the budget in question can be used to finance persons or positions, or whether it is merely a summarization unit.