Plans and lines
A plan sits at a level of the business — a division, typically — for a fiscal year, and holds lines: individual schemes, each asking for money and carrying its own category and priority.
A scheme’s requested amount and approved amount are different figures everywhere on this
screen: a reviewer can cut a line, so the approved figure is null unless somebody typed a smaller one,
and every total on the plan coalesces the two in that order.
Categories and value bands
Every line carries one of four categories — Clubbed, Specified, Flexible or Project — and which category a value falls into is decided by a value band configured per division. See Configuring capex planning. Before a plan is submitted, the screen surfaces what would otherwise only be discovered on submission day:- Blocking exceptions — a line that will be refused when sent, computed while the plan is still a draft.
- A line outside its division’s value band, a carry-forward pointing at nothing approved, or cumulative cashflow past the original sanction.
Phasing
Each measure — cashflow, capitalisation, book depreciation, tax depreciation — is phased across the plan year’s own periods, plus a single figure for each of the following four years. Only cashflow is asked for that far out; the other three measures are phased within the plan year alone. Phasing is a crosstab: a save replaces one measure’s whole row, so clearing a cell is the same act as filling one in.Approving and opening the money
An approved plan with nothing turned into an opened budget head looks identical to one that’s fully funded from the plan side — the screen flags it as unfunded precisely because that isn’t visible otherwise. Turning approved lines into a budget head is a deliberate step on Budgets, not something this screen does for you.Configuring capex planning
Value bands per division, and the natures of investment a consolidated plan is sliced by.