Budget management
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Budget management is based on the subtask time tracking, the user timetable and the user hourly rate.

This section is available from project settings page: **Project > Budget**. There is also a shortcut from the dropdown menu on the board.

Budget lines
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![Cost Lines](http://kanboard.net/screenshots/documentation/budget-lines.png)

Budget lines are used to define a budget for the project.
This budget can be adjusted by adding a new entry with an effective date.

Cost breakdown
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![Cost Breakdown](http://kanboard.net/screenshots/documentation/budget-cost-breakdown.png)

Based on the subtask time tracking table and user information you can see the cost of each subtask.

The time spent is rounded to nearest quarter.

Budget graph
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![Budget Graph](http://kanboard.net/screenshots/documentation/budget-graph.png)

Finally, by combining all information we can generate a graph:

- Expenses represents user cost
- Budget lines are the provisioned budget
- Remaining is the budget left at the given time