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. 

 

 How to adjust contributions 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 Enter the desired contribution adjustment amount. 

 

 

 The system will recalculate the closing balance for the year using your adjusted contribution. 

 

 

 

 Why you might adjust contributions 

 You may want to manually adjust contributions for several reasons: 

 

 

 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. 

 

 

 

 

 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 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Smoothing contributions 

 

 

 To avoid large spikes or dips in contributions across years, you may want to even out the contributions over multiple periods. 

 

 

 

 

 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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 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. 

 

 

 

 Example 

 

 

 

 

 

 Year 

 Accruals 

 Net Interest 

 Fees 

 Contribution Adjustments 

 Contributions 

 

 

 

 

 2025 

 $5,000 

 $734 

 $50 

 -$500 

 $3,815 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 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.