# Adjust contributions

The **Contribution Adjustments** row allows you to **manually modify the amount of money added to the maintenance fund** for a given year.

This gives you flexibility to account for real-world circumstances that may not be fully captured by the system’s automatic calculations.

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## How to adjust contributions

- Click the **edit button** in the cell for the year you want to adjust.

[![Adjustments.png](https://help.commonview.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/scaled-1680-/pq1PnSB6KSPk4zfq-adjustments.png)](https://help.commonview.com/uploads/images/gallery/2026-01/pq1PnSB6KSPk4zfq-adjustments.png)

- Enter the desired contribution adjustment amount.
- The system will **recalculate the closing balance** for the year using your adjusted contribution.

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## Why you might adjust contributions

You may want to manually adjust contributions for several reasons:

1. **Cashflow considerations**
    
    
    - If contributions are unusually high for a particular year, you may want to **spread the cost over multiple years** to avoid asking owners for too much at once.
2. **Fund balance deviations**
    
    
    - If the fund is higher or lower than expected due to external factors, such as:
        
        
        - Inflation being higher or lower than projected
        - Contingency allowance being too low or too high
        - Unexpected maintenance costs or delays
3. **Smoothing contributions**
    
    
    - To avoid large spikes or dips in contributions across years, you may want to **even out the contributions** over multiple periods.
4. **Strategic planning**
    
    
    - Adjustments can be used to align the maintenance plan with **long-term organisational goals**, such as preferring a larger buffer in early years or reducing contributions temporarily to free up capital.

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## Key points

- Adjustments only affect the **year you change** and the **closing balance** for that year.
- Future contributions are **not automatically changed** unless you adjust them separately.
- Manual adjustments are fully compatible with the system’s automatic calculations.

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## Example

<div class="_tableContainer_1rjym_1" id="bkmrk-year-accruals-net-in"><div class="group _tableWrapper_1rjym_13 flex w-fit flex-col-reverse" tabindex="-1"><table class="w-fit min-w-(--thread-content-width)" data-end="2464" data-start="2205"><thead data-end="2291" data-start="2205"><tr data-end="2291" data-start="2205"><th data-col-size="sm" data-end="2212" data-start="2205">Year</th><th data-col-size="sm" data-end="2223" data-start="2212">Accruals</th><th data-col-size="sm" data-end="2238" data-start="2223">Net Interest</th><th data-col-size="sm" data-end="2245" data-start="2238">Fees</th><th data-col-size="sm" data-end="2272" data-start="2245">Contribution Adjustments</th><th data-col-size="sm" data-end="2291" data-start="2272">Contributions</th></tr></thead><tbody data-end="2464" data-start="2379"><tr data-end="2464" data-start="2379"><td data-col-size="sm" data-end="2386" data-start="2379">2025</td><td data-col-size="sm" data-end="2398" data-start="2386">$5,000</td><td data-col-size="sm" data-end="2413" data-start="2398">$734</td><td data-col-size="sm" data-end="2420" data-start="2413">$50</td><td data-col-size="sm" data-end="2445" data-start="2420">-$500</td><td data-col-size="sm" data-end="2464" data-start="2445">$3,815</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div></div>- In this example, the system initially calculated contributions of $4,315.
- The user reduced the contribution by **$500** to account for cashflow constraints.
- The closing balance and subsequent years’ calculations will reflect this adjustment.