In addition to budgeting, you can use the Budget function for two other purposes: to allocate costs and to define report structures.

Budget structures can be used for allocations, where the system allocates costs based on the actuals in the budget. The Budget daemon polls the accounts you specify in the allocation and returns the amounts for distribution. See Setting Up Allocations for details.

Report structures let you use the Budget function to define the hierarchy of levels for which the system accumulates data for the Balance Sheet and Income Statement reports. You define a report structure that ends at the lowest level on the chart of accounts, and where the higher levels are subtotals. See Structured Reports for further information.