Read the reserve funding dashboard

The Reserves surface turns your imported reserve components into the two numbers a board actually decides on: how much to contribute this year, and how well funded the association is. Open it from the Accounting operations area (/accounting?tab=reserves). It requires the Property Operations module.

Pick your target budget year at the top. Everything on the surface recalculates for that year.

What each figure means:
• Required annual reserve contribution — the amount to set aside for the target year. Two bases are shown side by side: the component (straight-line) method, which funds each component evenly over its life, and the cash-flow method, which funds to keep the pooled reserve balance above zero as expenses land. Boards commonly compare the two and choose a funding goal between them.
• Percent funded — your current reserve balance divided by the fully funded balance. It is a health measure, not a pass/fail line: a higher percentage means you are closer to having set aside what the wear on your components represents to date.
• Fully funded balance / amount needed on hand — per component, the share of its replacement cost that should already be saved given how much of its useful life has elapsed. Summed, it is the association's fully funded target.
• Multi-year reserve-balance projection — a year-by-year view of the reserve balance under the selected contribution, so you can see when a large replacement draws the balance down and whether contributions recover it.

Use the target-year selector to test different funding levels. The numbers here are planning figures based on the study and any adjustments you have recorded — they support the board's funding decision, they do not replace a reserve specialist's study.