Cost Control
You can add an account that the budget does not have to a cost control set, and you know why the dialog sometimes offers no reference account.
When you create a cost control set, KOSMA copies every account of its budget into the set. With **Add Account**, you add an account that the budget does not have. KOSMA creates it in the set only and does not change the budget.
In the toolbar, click  **Account**. KOSMA opens **Add Account**.
Choose **Above** or **Below**, then choose the reference account in the list: the account that the new one sits next to. KOSMA preselects **Below** and the first account of the list. The list shows the accounts of the set with their number and name. KOSMA puts the new account directly above or below the reference account, in the same group, so the totals of that group and its category include it. The new account is not linked to the reference account.
In the name field, replace New Account with the account's name. In **Account No**, enter a number that no account in the set has yet. As long as either field is empty, **Ok** stays greyed out.
Click **Ok**. KOSMA adds the account to the set and selects it in the grid. **Forecast** shows 0 for it. **Budget** shows the budget's figure for the same account number, so it shows 0 for a number the budget does not have. In **Recalculation**, you cannot change the quantity, unit price or factor of the new account.
To book costs on the account, see [add a cost item by hand](/kb/article/add-a-cost-item-by-hand). In the import mapping set, you choose which account an imported booking goes to; see [set up an import mapping set](/kb/article/set-up-an-import-mapping-set).
Instead of the list, the dialog shows this message, and **Ok** stays greyed out:
**Message:** No reference account is available yet. Add an account in Budgeting first.
This happens when the set tracks no account at all, for example because you created it from a budget without accounts. An account you add in Budgeting now does not appear in this set. KOSMA copies the budget's accounts only when it creates the set, and the set locks its budget for as long as the set exists. To work with the accounts of a budget, create a set from a budget that has accounts, see [create a cost control set](/kb/article/create-a-cost-control-set). For how a set and its budget are linked, see [how a cost control set relates to a budget](/kb/article/how-a-cost-control-set-relates-to-a-budget).
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