Multi-year Budget

[Kristi]

We are building a new sanctuary.
Our Finance Committee requested I enter a budget for our builders.
I did this last year, 2005, under Fund 16 New Sanctuary.

Yesterday I noticed I forgot to enter the budget for 2006.
Since 2005 is gone. I had to enter the ending from 2005 for the beginning of 2006.

My committee wants to see a "running total" for this budget.
The best report I can find is the Income/Expense by Year, but we would have to tally all the budgeted items and they don't want to have to add. I can export this report into Excell, but would rather not if PowerChurch has something I'm overlooking.

What do other churches do for building campaigns that last several years?

Thank you~Kristi

[NeilZ]

We are building a new sanctuary.
Our Finance Committee requested I enter a budget for our builders.
I did this last year, 2005, under Fund 16 New Sanctuary.

Yesterday I noticed I forgot to enter the budget for 2006.
Since 2005 is gone. I had to enter the ending from 2005 for the beginning of 2006.

My committee wants to see a "running total" for this budget.
The best report I can find is the Income/Expense by Year, but we would have to tally all the budgeted items and they don't want to have to add. I can export this report into Excell, but would rather not if PowerChurch has something I'm overlooking.

What do other churches do for building campaigns that last several years?

Thank you~Kristi

What version of PC+ are you using ?? If you're saying that 2005 is gone, then you must be pre-version 9, which can maintain multiple year data.

What we did before version 9, was backup at the end of the year, then bring forward the totals as the beginning amounts for the building fund in the next year.

[Kristi]

Neil,
It is version 9.
Not all my 2005 information is gone.
My 2005 budget. If I enter the original budget we had in 2005 for 2006, which is what they want, the Inc/Exp report for 2006 won't have 2005's Inc/Exp on it...it will look like we are starting 2006 off with the same money we started with 2005.
Do you understand my question?
Thank you,
Kristi

[NeilZ]

Neil,
It is version 9.
Not all my 2005 information is gone.
My 2005 budget. If I enter the original budget we had in 2005 for 2006, which is what they want, the Inc/Exp report for 2006 won't have 2005's Inc/Exp on it...it will look like we are starting 2006 off with the same money we started with 2005.
Do you understand my question?
Thank you,
Kristi

Our building fund budget is only setup for income, what we expect. We know what the building will probably cost, but that can vary, as can the payments, so we don't track expenses in the same way.