Management of a project's finances-- including project budgets and allocations from different funding sources as well as incoming and/or outgoing payments (disbursements).
Amp Impact Objects: Financial Management
The table below categorizes the Financial Management functional area and includes a description, the sample uses, and other ways we see it implemented.
This table could be a helpful starting point to understand design principles for the Financial Management functional area in Amp Impact.
Functional Area | Amp Object Label | Amp Object API name | Abbrv | Object Description | Sample Use | Also Sometimes Called | Key relationships (Amp object's relationship in parentheses) | Sometimes connects to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Financial Management | Fund | ampi_xx_Fund__c |
| Funds are pools of money that an organisation can define based on programmatic interests, donor interests, funding sources, etc. The object facilitates tracking available funds for grants, allocating money from funds to different grants or projects, and monitoring disbursements drawing from those funds. | An organsiation may define a "2022 WASH Initiatives" fund and track the aggregate amounts applied for, allocated, committed, and paid to grants/projects on Fund record. They can also monitor funds remaining in the fund. | Funding Source | Allocations (M2M between Fund and Project) | Opportunity |
Financial Management | Budget | ampi__Budget__c |
| The Budget object holds planned and actual expenditure (and/or revenue) by grouping together Financial records (aka Budget Lines). Users can see the total planned and actual amounts on the Budget record as well as the related Financials. A Grant/Project/Programme can have multiple Budgets, for instance one per partner, one per geography, or one per period. | The Education For All project has one Budget record that contains all the project's planned Budget Lines and actual expenditure. Before the project started, the budget was approved by the Country Director and Finance Director. | Forecast | Project (Budget is child on Master-Detail) | Account |
Financial Management | Financial | ampi__Financial__c |
| Financials serve as Budget Lines and Expenditure Lines. Financials can be high-level (eg $300k on Salaries in Q1) or very detailed (eg $5k on Martha's January). The Financial object is child to the Budget object and the Reporting Period Object (both are required) and has an optional lookup to Activity for organization's looking to do Activity-based budgeting. | The Education For All project's budget has 10 Budget Lines stored on the Financial object. Each is categorized (eg Personnel) and sub-categorized (eg Benefits). Expenditure records are loaded into the Financial object monthly from the Accounting system, so that program staff can see Budget vs Actual for their projects. | Budget Line, Forecast Line | Budget (Financial is child on Master-Detail) | Framework Objective (for "Result-based budgeting") |
Financial Management | Disbursement | ampi__Disbursement__c |
| Disbursements are payments that have been made or scheduled to be made. Disbursements can either be inbound (i.e. received) or outbound (i.e. sent). Disbursements are sometimes tied to Grant or Progress Reports and could be connected to specific milestones if needed. They will sometimes undergo an approval process and often be used in integrations with ERP systems (eg schedule and approve Disbursements in Amp, make payment via ERP and have that data flow back to Amp). | The Education For All project has four scheduled Disbursements, including an initial payment of $50,000 and three subsequent payments tied to completion and approval of quarterly progress reports. | Payment, Tranche | Project (Disbursement is child on Master-Detail) | Activity |
Financial Management | Allocation | ampi__Allocation__c |
| The Allocation object can be used to record commitments of monetary resources to a project from different Accounts/Organizations, Funds, or Opportunities. A Project can have one or more Allocations. A Project with only one funder, might have just one Allocation, whereas a Project funded by multiple sources would have many. | The Education For All project has three funders; Org A, Org B, and Org C. Org A has committed $100k; Org B and Org C have each committed $50k. Additionally, the org itself has committed $50k of unrestricted funding to the project from the Unrestricted Fund record. Each of these Commitments is stored on the Allocation object. | Commitments | Project (Allocation is child in lookup) | Opportunity |