Re-profiling a Budget Spend/Income

Budgeting in ExpensePlus

When you set up your categories in ExpensePlus you can specify an annual budget amount as well as customise how this should be profiled/apportioned throughout the year. Typically churches and charities have 12 months in their financial year, and typically most budgets are profiled in a linear way (1/12 of the total budget each month). But in ExpensePlus you can profile this however you wish, and even re-profile/re-apportion the total budget during the financial year. For example, you may profile Grants as having an expected budget of £12k as linear, but if in month 1 you get 3 grants, totalling £6k.....you may wish to go back and reprofile (unless genuinely you believe and want the forecasted total to be 6 times higher than the annual budget). 
On the expenditure front, you may pay some larger items, such as your insurance premium, or your examination fee on an annual basis. If you know it is due every year in March or May, you might as well tell ExpensePlus that this is the case.
When and how to re-profile a budget
Typically, in the Grants income scenario above, (where you're expecting £12K total. but £6K arrived in month 1), if you believed you were still on target to hit £12k over the whole year, you'd re-profile the budget as £6k in M1 with the remaining £6k split over the subsequent 11 months which would make the forecast in ExpensePlus go back to saying you were on budget at £12k for the year.
If you actually thought you can probably get in £24k this year (even though you've only budgeted £12k), you'd reprofile the budget as £3k in month 1 with the remaining £9k split over the subsequent 11 months). In this example, the profile will match the original budget, and the fact that you've exceeded your month 1 forecast by 100%, will carry through to a £24K forecast by year-end.  You can continue to re-profile other months as well, throughout the year, based on the information available, WITHOUT changing the signed off-budget amount for each category.
Budget profiles are adjusted in the Income & Expenditure Category Settings screen, by selecting the Budget details tab (screenshot below) and then clicking on the category of your choosing.

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