How will appropriation and organization budgets work in SoarFin?
A definition of an appropriation and organization budget in SoarFin will help explain these types of budgets. An appropriation is the highest level of budgeting in SoarFin. The term appropriation is a SoarFin term and should not be confused with the appropriations received by the University from the state of Mississippi. The appropriation budget is the controlling budget, and as long as funds are sufficient within the categories of the appropriation budget, a department will be able to process transactions. The appropriation budget will be displayed in two categories: Personal Services and Other. The Persoanl Services category will add salary (where all fixed positions, nonexempt and exempt will be budgeted) and fringe benefit categories together and the Other category will combine the remaining categories of the operating budget together. An organization budget can be linked to an existing appropriation budget or stand-alone. The organization budget will show budget categories at a mo
