I am just guessing as to the structure of your app but it seems to me the proper structure would be to have a relationship between your two tables. There would be a table of Fund Categories and a table of Amounts spent.
Then you would have a Relationship where One Fund Category has many Amount Spent entries.
Then on that relationship you would make a summary field to total update about spent. That way each Fund category would know how much has been spent so far. had a data entry field on the fund category where you could enter the opening balance for the fund category then you would know how much is remaining to spend by subtracting.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
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