Pay expense

CLEM.Activities.FinanceActivityPayExpense

Arranges payment of a farm expense.

This activity arranges the payment of an expense from a specified account.

You can use the transaction category property to identify expenses that need to be considered in analysis such as overheads. For example, you could set transaction category to "overhead" for each overhead expense activity and this will be reported in the finance ledger for use in analysis.

The following parameters are used to define this activity

This parameter points to one of the defined Finance types in the Finance group of the Resources available for this simulation. This entry is a drop down list of available Finance types.

The amount to pay for this expense.

This parameter will determine what action is taken if there are insufficient resources to perform this activity.

You can report an error and stop the simulation, skip this activity or use the resources available. See What to do when resources are limiting

The following components will add additional functionality to this activity

Adding a Labour requirement below this activity will mean that labour is calculated and required to undertake the task.

This activity will occur in every time-step unless timers are used to restrict this activity.

This activity is performed during the Get Resources Required event of the setup and time-step events. This is the standard, monthly clock event by which CLEM activities request resources and perform actions based on the resources provided, therefore this activity will compete with most activities in the time-step with their location in the simulation tree determining the order they are processed (this includes activities located on other CLEM and Market components). If this activity relies on another activity having been performed, or other activities rely on this activity in the time-step, ensure it has been performed in the correct order based on it's position in the simulation tree.

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