Budget Types

There are two main budget types.

• Main Budget: used for budgets of departments that do not have any subordinate departments in the budget hierarchy
• Sum Budget: used for budgets of departments that have one or more subordinate departments in the budget hierarchy

Regardless of budget type, the following elements of lines created from a template line cannot be changed:

• Name
• Indentation
• Order
• Income/expense state

These elements cannot be changed because changes would affect automatic aggregation. For example, if the total expense line on one budget is changed to be the sum of the result line, then the values on the superior budget will not make sense. Also, if the names of the lines are changed, then it will be difficult for the employee responsible for a superior budget to compare the lines and values of the superior budget with the lines and values of the subordinate budgets.