Cost Control
You can move a forecast by changing quantity and price rather than typing a total.
A forecast can always be typed. **Recalculation** is the other way: adjust the account's own quantity, unit and price, and let the forecast follow.
The edit action on the account row — its help text says what it is for: *Edit account. You can recalculate this account to adapt the prediction.*
The account keeps the structure it had in the budget — quantity, unit, price, and subaccounts if it had them. Change what actually changed:
- the shoot gained two days → raise the quantity; - the crew rate was renegotiated → change the price; - a new element appeared → add a subaccount.
The forecast recomputes from those.
**A typed forecast is a conclusion. A recalculated forecast carries its reasoning.**
Three months later, "€46,000" tells you nothing. "22 days at €2,090" tells you what the number assumed, and lets the next person check whether the assumption still holds — or update it in one place when the schedule moves again.
It also survives scrutiny. A financier asking why an account is €6,000 over gets an answer instead of an assertion.
**When to type instead.** When the change genuinely is not about quantity or price: a settlement figure, a negotiated cap, a number somebody else has given you. Forcing those into a rate × quantity shape invents precision that is not there.
They are opposites and get confused.
| Action | What it does | Use it when | | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------------------------- | | **Recalculate** | works the forecast out from quantity and price | the expectation has changed | | **Consolidate** | sets the forecast to what is already booked | nothing further is expected |
Recalculating keeps a forecast alive; consolidating ends it — see [consolidate an account](/kb/article/consolidate-an-account).
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