Every figure, sourced. Every commitment, traced. Every approval, prepared.
What’s waiting for my approval?
Two documents on the camera department’s route are waiting for you, as head of department.
Camera department spendHead of department
Get PO-1047 ready for approval
What is still committed on 5200?
€12,480.00 is still committed on 5200 · Equipment rental, all of it on INV-2048 from Lantern Films.
5200 · Equipment rentalFrom the ledger
Compare INV-2048 with its order
Every answer names the records it stands on, so you can open the budget line, purchase order or invoice behind it and check.
Where are we against budget?
5200 · Equipment rental is at €32,880.00 of €80,000.00: €20,400.00 posted and €12,480.00 still committed. €47,120.00 remains, and the forecast lands on budget.
5200 · Equipment rentalFrom the ledger
Attach an invoice or a quote and ask about it. Abacist reads the document beside your production’s records.
Does this match the purchase order?
Yes. INV-2048 from Lantern Films comes to €12,480.00, the same as PO-1042, and all three lines are coded under 5200 · Equipment rental.
From the document and the ledger
Ask can line up an approval or draft a rejection and its reason. Nothing is approved, rejected or sent until a person does it.
Get INV-2048 ready for approval.
Ready. It matches PO-1042, and approving it posts €12,480.00 to 5200 · Equipment rental without moving what is available, because the purchase order had already reserved it.
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Where every answer comes from
Every figure cited. Each answer names the budget line, order or invoice it came from.
Documents, too. Attach an invoice or a quote and ask about it beside the ledger.
Three depths. Quick, Standard or Deep: choose how much work goes into each answer.
Your access, no more. It reads through the same permissions as the rest of Abacist.
Approving, rejecting and paying stay with the people whose role allows them. Ask prepares the step and hands it over.
Approve INV-2048
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Some questions have no honest answer in a ledger. Ask for budget by vendor and it explains why that total would count the same budget more than once, then offers spend by vendor instead.
Budget by vendor would count each budget more than once. Here is spend by vendor instead.
Answers come only from records your role already opens, project by project. Ask reads through the same permissions as everything else in Abacist.
Ask them in plain words, whenever the numbers matter.
Budget, spent and committed, account by account.
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Open orders against one account, before their invoices arrive.
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The forecast against the budget, with the variance.
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Spend by vendor, and by month.
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An attached document, read beside the ledger.
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The step prepared; the decision left to a person.
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