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title: How Do I Edit a Budget?
description: Change the amounts or account rows on an existing budget from Financials > Budgets.
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# How Do I Edit a Budget?

This article shows you how to edit a budget you have already created: change the amounts or add and remove account rows. Owners and Org Admins can do this from Financials \> Budgets.

**Before you start:** The Year on a budget cannot be changed. Each year can have only one budget.

##### **Steps**

1. Click **Financials** in the left nav, then click **Budgets**.
2. Click **Actions** on the budget's row.
   
   ![A budget row's Actions menu showing Summary, Edit and Delete](https://help.hoastart.app/hs-fs/hubfs/empower-kb-view-and-edit-budgets-3-row-actions-menu.png?width=600&name=empower-kb-view-and-edit-budgets-3-row-actions-menu.png)
3. Choose **Edit**.
4. Type a new **Annual Budget Amount** for any line. You can also change the **Account**, add a new line with **Add Row**, or remove a line with the trash icon.
   
   ![The Edit Budget page with the greyed-out Year box highlighted above the account rows, Add Row button, and Cancel and Save buttons](https://help.hoastart.app/hs-fs/hubfs/empower-kb-view-and-edit-budgets-2-edit-budget-v2.png?width=600&name=empower-kb-view-and-edit-budgets-2-edit-budget-v2.png)
5. Click **Save** to save your changes.

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##### **Editing a budget mid-year**

Unlike Expenses, a budget can be edited after you create it: use the row Actions menu, then Edit. You can change the amounts and the account rows, but not the Year. If a planned amount changes partway through the year — for example, the board approves a higher reserve contribution — use **Edit** on the existing budget rather than creating a new budget for the same year. A second budget for the same year can't be created — the Create Budget form shows "A budget already exists for this year."

##### **Related articles**

- [View and Edit Budgets](https://help.hoastart.app/view-and-edit-budgets?hsLang=en)
- [How Do I Delete a Budget?](https://help.hoastart.app/how-do-i-delete-a-budget?hsLang=en)
- [Create a Budget](https://help.hoastart.app/create-a-budget?hsLang=en)

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