# Weekly Dynamic: Budget Exports vs. Analytical Accounting Budget Exports

- URL: https://dynamicaccounting.net/weekly-dynamic-budget-exports-vs-analytical-accounting-budget-exports/
- Date: 2014-05-05
- Topics: General Ledger & Financials
- Dynamics GP versions mentioned: GP 2013
- Type: original article

I got burned by this recently so I thought I would share this to save you some time.

If you export a budget from Dynamics GP 2013 (and presumably earlier versions), Excel is not required on the machine. As a consultant I often end up with remote access only to the SQL Server. If GP is installed, I can still export a budget, save the Excel file, and move it to a different computer to work with it.

Exporting Analytical Accounting based budgets does not work the same way. With AA budgets, Excel is REQUIRED (though this isn’t documented or listed in a KB) on the machine performing the export because the AA budget routine opens the budget spreadsheet when done. If Excel is not installed on the machine, GP throws the helpful error:

Unhandled object exception:

Invalid class string

EXCEPTION\_CLASS\_OBJECT\_EXCEPTION

ExceptionSubClass:-2147221005

Hopefully, Google and Bing will index this now so that someone else won’t get stuck trying to hunt down this error.