Consolidate Budget Input

Topic at a glance

Working up an overall budget requires combining the budgets for several groups or departments within your company. Determining how to allocate the available funds usually involves several rounds of proposals and reconsolidation. To project expenses and make adjustments, your department managers need worksheets from you that contain the right information. Design the worksheets so that you can easily roll up the figures you get from each department, as many times as they change.