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ACQ Money questions/decisions

Percentage-based allocations
- The percentages are stored in a separate table
- Calculate and create static allocations at initial percentage setup time.
- As new money is credited to the funding source, provide option to automatically distribute the money to the same set of funds using the last-defined percentages.
- If the percentage changes, it will not affect existing allocations. It will only affect new allocations.
Hard links from fund debits to funding sources / funding source credits?
- Proposed solution: links to both are virtual and determined by algorithm.
  - Two proposed algorithms to support are FIFO and Deadline-based.
  - Data is calculated at report run time and is provisional since funding source and funding source credit attributes can change, which will affect how money can be spent from a funding source.
  - This means staff cannot manually choose which funding source pays for a given item
Multiple funding-source to fund inheritance supported?
- Yes
What happens if I find out some of the money I was promised may have to be returned (e.g. mid-year budget cuts)?
- proposed solution: Define an "ok-to-spend" threshold on funding source credits.
  - The system will not let you spend past this amount.
  - This allows you to track the original amount and the amount you can freely spend
  - The ok-to-spend amount can be changed at any time.