This is especially useful if you want to compare a budget created some time ago to the actual equipment usages achieved. The budget created was based on certain usages, but they can be quite different, and any variances need to be analysed based on the actual usages achieved.

This routine replaces the usages with actual usages; future usages are not impacted. The budget calculation routine recalculates the budget using the updated usages but still using the strategy task assumptions from when the budget was originally created.

This process impacts Plant Hire revenue for equipment configured for Plant Hire.

Replaces both the costs to date and future costs. Primarily used if you want to get the latest budget information on the equipment but want to keep the usage rates already set up in the budget.

This process repopulates the costs tables in the budget from current projections, based on the budget's usage data.

Manual changes made to future budget costs in Budgeting will be overwritten by this process.

This process impacts Plant Hire revenue for equipment configured for Plant Hire.

Replaces the actual costs to a nominated month (up to the previous month). This replaces both actuals and projected in the nominated month. This function behaves in the same way as Replace costs with actuals/current projection but can be limited to a date range.

You can end up with a mismatch, for example, you may have planned to do an engine in August, but it is done in July. Now you replace actuals to the month of July and the engine costs appear in both July (actuals) and August (projected). This scenario could happen in reverse, planned to do in July but doing in August.