====== Philosophies for tracking money ======

==== Two extremes for managing funding source allocations, funding sources, and funds. ====


== The one-to-one philosophy ==
  * Money from a given external source that has a spending deadline, goes into its own funding source.  
  * A fund only receives money from 1 funding source (no multiple funding-source inheritance).
  * Typically, this means a new set of funding sources each year.
  * The funding source is the "root" of the money, not the individual credits into the funding source
  * {{:acq:acq_money_simple.png|}}
== The multiverse philosophy ==
  * Money with different spending deadlines may be part of the same funding source
  * Funds receive money from multiple funding sources
  * The funding source credit is the "root" of all money and tracks the spending deadline
  * {{:acq:acq_money_mingled.png|}}