Budget allocation, Urgently needed

Question

Hai 2 All,
my client have 3 branches in X,Y,Z places but he is doing all the transactions like invoices, salaries, expenses and so on from Branch X for other branches also and he wants to maintaines only one COA and book all expenses and revenues for all branches on that single COA, and also he wants to allocate budget for Branches.
How can it is possible, In B1 we allocate the budget to accounts only i.e he creates only one salaries Account for all branches but he wants to allocate budget to this account seperately for different branches.
Ex:
Branches X,Y and Z
he wants to allocate budget to Salaries Account for 3 branches like
For Branch X--->500000
For Branch Y--->600000
For Branch Z--->800000
But the problem is he creates only one salarie Account for all branches.
How can we allocate budget like aboue scenario.
Please help me on this.

Answer 1

Account segmentation would have been the answer, with a segment per branch. This cannot be updated once transactions are posted though.
The only way to achieve this is to use acount levels - Level 4 for group & posating level accounts, one for each branch. It will require custom reporting to generate reports on this.
Recommend using last number as 1 for branch 1, 2 for branch 2 etc in all accounts so they can be grouped