Budgeting
You can set up the companies of a coproduction and split any budget line between them by percentage or by amount.
Each coproduction partner carries an agreed share of the budget. You set up the partners once as companies, then enter each company's share on every budget line. You need a licence that covers Budgeting and a budget you can edit.
Click an account in the budget. In the **Account Details** panel, click  **Settings for account details** and choose **Companies**. KOSMA opens the **Companies** dialog.
Click  **Company** once for each partner. KOSMA adds a row named **New Company 1**, then **New Company 2** and so on, and places the cursor in the name field. Type the partner's name. Each name can appear only once, regardless of case. If two names are the same, KOSMA shows this message and keeps **Ok** greyed out:
Name must be unique
KOSMA applies the changes you make in the dialog only when you click **Ok**. **Cancel** discards all your changes.
Click the account you want to split. You split subaccounts and markups the same way. In the **Account Details** panel, hover over the header of the **Companies** panel and click  **Add company** (on an empty panel, clicking the header is enough). KOSMA adds a row with the first company that is not yet on the account and opens its dropdown. Choose the partner. KOSMA fills in whatever is missing to reach 100%, so the first company starts at 100%. Type the partner's share into the field next to the dropdown, for example 80%.
If a partner is missing from the dropdown, click **Edit** at the bottom of the dropdown. KOSMA opens the **Companies** dialog from step 1. When every company is already on the account,  **Add company** opens that dialog too.
A share starts as a percentage. To type an amount instead, click  **Switch to amount** next to the field and type the amount. When you leave the field, KOSMA converts the amount into a percentage of the account total and saves only that. To type a percentage again, click  **Switch to percentage**.
If the account total changes later, the partner's amount changes with it.
Repeat step 3 for each further partner. KOSMA again fills in what is missing to reach 100%: if Northlight has 80%, Edelweiss gets 20%. Together, the shares on an account cannot exceed 100%. If the first company is still at 100%, lower its share first. If you type more than the remaining share, KOSMA caps the value at the maximum and shows this message:
Sum of all companies cannot exceed 100%.
An account can have at most 6 companies. If you try to add a seventh, KOSMA shows this message:
Maximum of 6 companies per account reached.
To remove a company from the account, choose **--none--** in its dropdown.
An account with subaccounts has no companies of its own. When you select it, the **Companies** panel shows the companies of its subaccounts, and every change applies to every subaccount. If the subaccounts have different companies, the panel shows this message instead of the companies:
Mixed contents · Click ↺ to reset
**Reset companies** removes the companies and their shares from every subaccount.
To give all subaccounts the same companies, point at the header of the panel, click  **Reset companies** and assign the companies again.
Selecting several accounts works the same way: a change applies to all of them, and different companies show the same message. When you reset more than one account, KOSMA asks first, for example for three accounts:
Reset 3 Accounts?
Click **Reset** to remove the companies from all selected accounts.
You do both in the **Companies** dialog (step 1). The **In Use** column shows how often a company is used: each share on an account, subaccount, markup or cost item counts, and so does each formula that calculates with the company (`SUM_COMPANY` or `COUNT_COMPANY`).
To hide a company, click  **Hide company** in its row. This only removes it from the **Companies** widget on the **Topsheet Info** screen, and only while its total there is 0. Every account keeps its share, and the company stays in the dropdown of the **Companies** panel, in the column list of the grid and in the print dialog. To show the company again, click  **Show company**.
To delete a company, click  **Delete company**. If the company is not in use, KOSMA asks first:
Are you sure you want to remove company "Northlight"?
If the company is in use, KOSMA shows where: in accounts, markups and formulas. You can delete it anyway.
Deleting a company that is in use removes all its shares. A formula that names the company stays, but KOSMA outlines it in red because a part is missing.
**Where the split shows up.** Assigning a company changes no total in the budget. To see the share of each company in the grid, in a printout and in **Topsheet Info**, see [show company and effect columns](/kb/article/show-company-and-effect-columns). To use company totals in formulas, see [aggregate by company, tag or effect](/kb/article/aggregate-by-company-tag-or-effect).
If the account is the **Collect In Budget Account** of wage fringes or wage supplements, KOSMA greys out the panel. This account brings together those costs from several wage accounts and takes its split from them. Assign the companies to those wage accounts.
The panel and the **Companies** dialog are also greyed out when you cannot edit the budget, for example on a Free licence or when someone shared the budget with you for reading only. See [what your licence includes](/kb/article/what-your-licence-includes).
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