Budgeting
You can create groups of wage fringes with their rates, daily limits and collect-in accounts, and hide or delete a fringe.
A wage fringe belongs to the whole budget. You define it once, in a group, in the **Fringes & Supplements** dialog, and then apply it to the accounts it concerns. For that second step, see [apply fringes and supplements](/kb/article/apply-fringes-and-supplements).
In the account details, click  **Settings for account details**, and then click **Fringes & Supplements**. KOSMA opens the **Fringes & Supplements** dialog. Click the **Fringes** tab.
The title shows no account name, because every account that uses a fringe uses the definition you change here.
You can also open this dialog from the window where you apply fringes to an account: click  **Settings** in that window. KOSMA opens the dialog over it, on the same tab that window shows. When you close the dialog, that window lists the changed fringes.
Click  **Group**. KOSMA adds a group named New Group and selects its name. Type a name for the group.
As long as the budget has no group, the list shows this:
No groups yet
Select the group, and then click  **Fringe**. KOSMA adds a row named New Fringe and selects the name, so you can type your own.
If you have not selected a group, **Fringe** is greyed out, and KOSMA shows this in place of the fringes:
Select a group to see its wage fringes
When you point at the greyed-out **Fringe**, KOSMA shows:
Add group to add a row
**Fringe Name** cannot be empty. Two fringes in the same group cannot have the same name. Fringes in different groups can. If the name is already taken in the group, KOSMA shows:
Name must be unique
In **Percentage**, enter the rate, for example 10 for 10%. KOSMA accepts a value above 0 and up to 100, with up to two decimals. For any other entry, the cell keeps its previous value. KOSMA calculates the fringe as this percentage of the account's total. If the account has subaccounts, the base is the sum of the subaccounts you ticked for fringes. For the German rates and limits, see [set up German social charges](/kb/article/set-up-german-social-charges).
Under **Collect In Budget Account**, choose the account in which KOSMA shows the fringe amount. For how a collect-in account works, see [how collect-in accounts work](/kb/article/how-collect-in-accounts-work). The list shows the budget's accounts, except accounts that collect a tax. If you opened the dialog while applying fringes to an account, that account is not in the list either.
If the account you choose already collects other amounts, KOSMA opens the **Add to collection account?** dialog with this message:
This account already collects other calculations. Add this one to it?
If the account you choose has an amount of its own, KOSMA opens the **Overwrite calculation?** dialog with this message:
This account already has a calculation. Collecting here will overwrite it. Continue?
Click **Continue** to use the account. Click **Cancel** to keep the account you had chosen before.
If a fringe has a legal limit per day, enter the limit in **Limit Per Day** and choose its currency in the same cell. If you choose no currency, KOSMA uses the budget's reporting currency. For a fringe without a limit, leave the cell empty.
In **Limit Per Day**, enter the highest fringe amount per day. Some authorities publish the highest taxed daily wage instead. The fringe limit is the fringe's percentage of that wage. If you enter the published wage, KOSMA caps the fringe at the wrong amount and does not warn you.
KOSMA stores the currency you choose, but does not use it to convert the limit. KOSMA treats the limit as an amount in the currency of the account you apply the fringe to. Enter the limit in that currency, or KOSMA caps the fringe at the wrong amount.
The limit takes effect only on an account with a timebase, the number of days you enter where you apply fringes to that account. KOSMA then charges at most the timebase times the limit. Without a timebase, KOSMA charges the full fringe. See [apply fringes and supplements](/kb/article/apply-fringes-and-supplements).
To take a fringe out of the window where you apply fringes, click  **Hide from apply window** in its row. On accounts that already use the fringe, KOSMA keeps calculating it. To show it again, click  **Show in apply window**. To hide a whole group, click  **Show/hide group in apply window**.
To delete a fringe, click  **Delete** in its row. KOSMA opens **Remove wage fringe**:
Are you sure you want to delete wage fringe {fringe name}?
If you delete a fringe, KOSMA removes it from every account that uses it. KOSMA does not check first whether the fringe is in use. **In Use** shows how many accounts use it.
Confirm to delete the fringe.
To delete a group, select it and click  **Delete**. KOSMA opens **Remove group**:
Are you sure you want to delete this group?
If a fringe of the group is in use, the message reads:
Some items in this group are in use. Deleting it will have an impact on your budget. Are you sure you want to delete this group?
Click **Ok**. KOSMA saves every change you made in the dialog, deletions included. To discard all of them, click **Cancel** or close the dialog. After you click **Ok**, you can undo the changes like any other edit.
**Next.** KOSMA calculates wage supplements in a different way. See [define wage supplements](/kb/article/define-wage-supplements).
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