Assessments & Additional Charges
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*Assessments & Additional Charges are used to map the financial obligations of the building to Resident billing.*

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   :alt: Assessments & Additional Charges Screen
   :align: center
   :width: 700

:smaller:`Assessments & Additional Charges Screen`

Opening The Screen
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To open the *Assessments & Additional Charges* screen:

#. Navigate to the :doc:`Buildings <../buildings>` screen
#. Click the button with building icons at the bottom of the Building card

     When hovering over the button, a tooltip will appear with the text *Manage Assessments*.

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   :alt: Quick Action Buttons
   :align: center
   :width: 300

:smaller:`Quick Action Buttons at the bottom of a Building card`

Building-Level Billing
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*It's most sensible to think about Assessments as Building-Level Billing*.

**The chance of human error is high** when setting up Assessments against each Resident account individually. PropMan solves for 
this by letting Property Managers enter the details of assessments in one place, and allowing the system to figure out how to split the bill.

The *Assessments & Additional Charges* screen is organized into two sections:

- *Assessments* - Building financial obligations billed to the Residents,  **split by ownership percentage**
- *Additional Charges* - a simple way to add a recurring charges at the Building level **to each Resident**


Setting up Assessments
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Settig up Assessments and Additional Charges is easy, and both are done in the same way.

#. Click the *New Assessment* or *New Charge* button and a new row will be added to the table
#. Enter a description, amount, Gl Account, Date Start, and Date End

.. note:: The description entered here will be used as the line item on the Resident's bill.

#. Save!