openproject/help/user-guide/budgets/README.md

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# Budgets

You can create and manage a **project budget** in OpenProject to keep track of your available and spent costs in a project.

You can add planned **unit costs** as well as **labor costs** for the project.

Then, you will assign work packages to a budgets. If you logg time or costs to this work package the costs will booked to this budget and show the percentage spent for a project budget.

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| [Create a project budget](#create-a-project-budget) | How to set up a project budget in OpenProject? |
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## Create a project budget

In order to create a budget in your project, the **Budgets module** needs to be activated in the [project settings](../../project-admin-guide).

To create your first budget in OpenProject, click the green **+ Budget** button on the top right of the page.

![Budgets_create-new](Budgets_create-new.png)