Budgeting
You know why an account gets subdivided, what a subaccount can and cannot carry, and what happens the moment you create the first one.
A subaccount splits one account into parts that are budgeted separately but reported as one line. It has no number of its own and cannot be split further.
The usual case is a person engaged across several work phases — preparation, shoot, wrap. Each phase has its own duration and sometimes its own rate. The account stays one line; the phases are visible underneath it, and its quantity is their sum.
The payoff comes with premiums. Overtime and night work are normally incurred during the shoot, not during preparation. Splitting the engagement lets a supplement apply to the shoot phase alone.
Subaccounts are not only for people — any account with parts worth costing separately can use them.
| Can | Cannot | | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | | Its own quantity, unit, price, factor and currency | Have a number of its own | | Its own tax | Be subdivided | | Its own notes, tags, attachments, cash flow rule, DFFF | Carry fringes, supplements or extra costs |
The last row catches people. Fringes, supplements and extra costs are assigned **on the account** — those panels are disabled when a subaccount is selected. What you choose per subaccount is which of them the calculation applies to, and you make that choice from the account. Tax is the exception: it really can be set per subaccount.
Creating the first subaccount moves the account's own values and details into it, because the account is about to stop holding values and start summing its children.
Worth knowing before you split an account you have already filled in: nothing is lost, but the figures you entered are now on the subaccount.
Because each subaccount carries its own currency, an account whose subaccounts are priced in different currencies shows a blank currency and price — a practical reason to keep one account in one currency.
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