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Arkansas Public School Computer Network 5.1 Procedural Outline
Uploading Excel Budget Spreadsheet Data March 3, 2015
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The Budget Administrator center’s Upload Budget option enables you to load
data from an Excel spreadsheet into Expenditure, Revenue, worksheets.
Before you can download files from excel into the software you will need to confirm that you
have one or all of the following folders on the C drive of your computer.
spitemp
spitmp
sptmp
If you do not have the folders you will need to add them to your computer.
Just click on Make a new folder
Following Screen will appear, click on the words New Folder, and type in the above
referenced folder name. (You will need a different folder for each). You do not have to put
anything in the folders
**Note sometimes the download will work if you just add one, and sometimes you need to
add them all.
Next you will need to download your budget from the software (APSCN) to excel, by going
to:
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Main Menu
Fund Accounting
Expenditure Ledgers
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The following screen appears, select the year for spreadsheet information.
Click OK or Find
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Following Screen will appear. Select Display Through
Option to display through select period and hit OK
Following screen will appear (notice date now shows through period 13).
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Click on Printer Icon
After clicking on printer icon below box will appear on screen select excel and OK
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After selecting O.K. screen may appear with below options select save or open. Or
depending on software setting file may open automatically in excel.
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Spread sheet will look like below
In the example above; spreadsheet will be modified to make the previous year expenditures
the new fiscal year’s budget. To accomplish this;
Sort and filter YTD Expenses column largest to smallest (Purpose of the sort is this example
is to delete rows of budget units that do not have expenses charged to them.)
Any columns user does not need to utilize to complete budget may be deleted. User may also
delete rows that have salaries and benefits expenses, these expenses may be budgeted using
the Personnel Budgeting Module.
Below examples has budget control organization, budget control account, period
expenditure, encumbrance, and status columns deleted, and expenses for salaries and
benefits have been removed from spreadsheet as well. (This is strictly user preference)
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*****Also note that the Year is only two digits upload will not work with four digits
Complete below steps before uploading spread sheet in to software (APSCN)
Year column should be the fiscal year being budgeted (column A in above example,
must be two digits).
Enter budget amount in Budget column (column G in this example).
Make a note of columns that have Year, Budget Unit, Account Code, and Budget
Amount. (Column A, B, D, G, in above example).
Also make a note of the beginning row of your spread sheet after the title row, and the
last row of your spread sheet.
Save the file as a Text Tab Delimited file. Also save as excel
***Suggestion save file in Budget Folder *****
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You will get this message when you are saving an excel file to a text tab delimited file.
Select yes
Next step is to build a template for your spreadsheet
Main menu
System Administration
Reference Table
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Click the plus symbol
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The following screen will appear:
Enter the following information
Template Name (user defined)
Template Type (Click on drop down arrow and select Budget Prep
Expenditure/Revenue Ledger).
File Format (Click on drop down arrow and select tab delimited).
Once all fields in red have been completed click O.K.
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Following screen will appear:
Complete Column Number for Organization and Account.
Tab to select Column name for Budget Year and Request Base, Recommend, or
Approved. (This example shows requested base.)
Completed Screen should look similar to below.
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User may now upload spreadsheet in to software (APSCN).
To upload spreadsheet into software from main menu;
Budget Preparation
Budget Administrator
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Following screen will appear: Select Upload Budget
If budget is being prepared prior to fiscal year end user will need to extract information.
Instructions for first time extraction are in Fiscal Year End procedural outline.
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Following screen will appear.
Do not change File Location
Select Browse
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After selecting Browse below box appears select the Budget Document that shows Text
Document and click open.
User will be returned to Template Detail Screen upon returning to screen user should
complete the following fields
Start Row (row in spread sheet after the title row)
Stop Row (last row in spread sheet that has budget figures in it)
Upload Type (options are create or update) selected update in this example
assuming that personnel budget has been done and if create option is selected it will
wipe out Personnel Budget figures.
When all fields are complete select OK
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User will get below screen
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This screen will appear after processing is complete.
If the only error message is “Line ignored before starting row.” user is ready to import
spreadsheet.
Select OK.
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After selecting OK user will get screen with the import option select Import
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After selecting import below screen appears.
Select OK
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***Optional Step***
Confirm figures are in Budget Preparation
Budget Preparation Budget Administrator
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Select Display Budget
Select Advanced
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Enter below Advanced Search Criteria and click OK
Below screens appears and should match items in uploaded spread sheet.