Carbon Emissions Budgets
Carbon Budgets can be used to plan your Company's carbon usage targets, check your current performance and compare the budgeted values against actual values.
In this window, you will be able to insert budget values for Last year, Current year and Next year for all Emission Groups. If you are analysing by Group and Division categories, separate budgets can be entered analysed in the same way.
The Access Crystal Reports enable you to do the comparison between various types of budgets and actual values.
Find a Carbon Budget
Click the Find button on the toolbar to select the values for the fields.
Select the values from the drop-down lists and press Enter key on the keyboard or click the OK button on the toolbar to activate the Find process. This will find the budget which has values entered for it and matches the selected criteria.
Use the Next and Previous buttons to go through all the records. The records will be displayed as per Division, Group, Emission Group and then Year values.
Edit a Carbon Budget
Use this option to edit existing budgets and to enter new budgets.
Select the budget to edit.
Click Edit button on the toolbar. The Year, Emission Group, Group heading and Division heading values become fixed and you will not be able to change them until you save the budget.
Insert or edit the budget values for the entire year; the values will be distributed equally to all the periods. You can also edit the values for each Period and system will update the year value accordingly.
Click the OK button on the toolbar to save that budget.
Duplicate a Carbon Budget
This option allows you to generate a budget from either the actual values or from a copy of previous budget. Both allow you to plan an increase or decrease in consumption.
Select the Carbon Budget to duplicate the values from.
Click the Duplicate button on the toolbar.
Select the Year, Emission Group, Division heading, Group heading values to copy the values for.
Click the OK button to save the budget.
The system copies all the values except the Group and Division values for the budget. If the combination for which you wish to duplicate the budget already has budget values then the system warns you that the Carbon Budget already exists. You may select to overwrite the values.
Duplicate a Whole Year Budget
This option allows you to generate a budget from either the actual values or from a copy of previous budget. Both allow you to plan an increase or decrease in consumption.
Select the Year from which you wish to duplicate the budget values.
Click the Duplicate Whole Year button on the toolbar.
Select the year (Current, Last, Next) from the Year drop-down selection list. Only those year values will be available for which there is no Carbon Budget existing.
Specify the percentage number up to 2 decimal places in Adjust By field. This will adjust all the budget values by the entered percent value. You may enter negative values to reduce all the budget figures for all the budgets by the entered percent value.
Click the OK button to save the budgets.
Delete a Carbon Budget
You can delete the selected budget by pressing the Delete button on the toolbar. This will permanently delete all the values for the selected budget and clear the table to insert new values for.