Budgeting
You can fill in every field of a budget account and know which of them accept a formula.
Select an account and edit it in place. Six columns are editable:
| Column | Holds | Accepts a formula | | --------------- | --------------------------- | ----------------------- | | **No.** | the account number | no | | **Description** | what the account is | no | | **Quantity** | how many | yes | | **Unit** | what the quantity counts | no — pick from the list | | **Price/Unit** | the rate, with its currency | yes | | **X** | a factor, default 1 | yes |
**Total** and **Total {Currency}** are calculated and cannot be edited — see [how an account total is calculated](/kb/article/how-an-account-total-is-calculated).
Quantity, Price/Unit and X accept variables and functions, not just numbers — a phase duration, another account's total, a rate you defined once. This is what makes a budget re-plannable rather than retyped — see [write a formula](/kb/article/write-a-formula).
**Unit** is a list. The list itself is edited through its **Edit** entry — see [manage units](/kb/article/manage-units).
The **currency** is folded into the Price/Unit cell rather than having a column of its own, because it belongs to the price. An account is budgeted in one currency; the conversion to the budget's reporting currency happens in Total {Currency}.
**Enter every price net of tax.** Where an account carries a tax, KOSMA calculates that tax on the account total and adds it on top — so a Price/Unit that already includes VAT is taxed a second time.
The rule holds on untaxed accounts too. A budget that mixes net and gross rows has totals that mean two different things at once, and no way to tell which row is which — see [apply a tax to an account](/kb/article/apply-a-tax-to-an-account).
Producers, effects, fringes, extra costs, tax, cash flow, tags, notes, attachments and DFFF are not columns — they live in the details panel on the right — see [how account details work](/kb/article/how-account-details-work).
**Subaccount** in the toolbar splits the account into parts. Note that doing so moves the values you just entered down into the first subaccount — see [use subaccounts](/kb/article/use-subaccounts) before you split a filled-in account.
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