Financing
You know the four levels a financing plan is built from, and which of them carry money.
A budget answers *what will this cost*. A financing plan answers *where does the money come from* — and it is deliberately shaped like the answer a financier expects: money grouped by the country that grants it.
A plan is a tree, and each level exists for a reason.
**Plan → Country → Group → Source → Installment.** The source carries the money; the installment says when it arrives.
**Country** is the top level because subsidy money is national. A German fund, a French fund and a co-producer in Belgium are three different regulatory worlds, and every financier wants to see their country's share.
**Group** sorts the sources within a country — regional funds, broadcasters, own contribution. It is your heading, not a fixed list.
**Source** is the row that carries money. Everything above it is organisation.
**Installment** is the payment schedule of one source. It never adds money; see [what installments are for](/kb/article/what-installments-are-for).
This is the point that saves the most confusion. A country and a group have no amount of their own — what they show is the sum of the sources beneath them. Change a source, and the country band and the **Financing Total** row follow.
So there is exactly one place to type money into a plan, and it is a source.
You cannot add a group before a country, or a source before a group. The buttons say so themselves rather than failing quietly — *A country is needed to add a group*, *A country and a group are needed to add a source* — see [add countries, groups and sources](/kb/article/add-countries-groups-and-sources).
The grid has a left rail of **Grand Totals** — Financing against the budget it is compared with, and the plan split by status and by what has been received. That rail is the reason to keep a plan tidy; it is read far more often than the rows — see [read the grand totals](/kb/article/read-the-financing-grand-totals).
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