Financing
You know that one row type covers every kind of incoming money, and that its Amount can be a formula.
A **source** is one place the money comes from. One row, one financier.
Producers do not say "source" out loud. They say the kind of money it is — a fund, a *Förderung*, a pre-sale, a minimum guarantee, an investment, a TV co-production, a tax incentive, a backer.
KOSMA has one row for all of them on purpose. They behave identically once they are in a plan: each is an amount, in a currency, at some level of certainty, arriving on some schedule. So if you are looking for where to enter your regional fund, your broadcaster deal or your tax incentive — it is a source. Add it in the country and group where it belongs and give it the name you actually use.
| Field | What it is | | --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **No.** | its number in the plan | | **Description** | the name you give it | | **Amount** | the money — a number **or a formula** | | **Currency** | the currency that amount is in | | **Status** | Pending, Submitted or Confirmed | | **Total** | the amount converted into the plan's reporting currency — computed, not typed |
Beneath it sit its installments, and hanging off it are its detail panels — company, effect, tax, cash flow, tags, notes, attachments — see [how source details work](/kb/article/how-source-details-work).
**This is the single most under-used thing in the module,** and nothing on screen announces it. The Amount field is not a number field with a calculator attached — it takes an expression, exactly as a budget account's price does.
That matters because most financing is *defined* as a proportion of something else. A fund that awards 20% of German spend, a broadcaster paying a fixed share of the total, a gap financier taking whatever is left — each is a rule, and a rule entered as a rule stays right when the budget changes.
Two directions are open to you:
- **Reference the budget** — `ACCOUNT`, `SUM_COMPANY`, `SUM_TAG`, `NPC`, `GT` and the budget's variables resolve against the linked budget — see [reference the budget in a source amount](/kb/article/reference-the-budget-in-a-source-amount). - **Reference the plan itself** — `SUM_COMPANY_F`, `SUM_TAG_F` and `SUM_EFFECT` aggregate the plan's own sources.
A blank Amount is not zero — it is nothing, and the row contributes nothing to any total — see [write a source amount formula](/kb/article/write-a-source-amount-formula).
Unlike a budget account, which can be split across several companies by percentage, **a source carries one company and one effect**. A financier is one party; there is nothing to split.
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