Comment 5 for bug 1175400

More notes - "overallocation" is the right word but when a user can put money into a fund and spend it without ever funding a funding source the situation violates basic accounting principles and makes this behavior more serious than a wishlist item, hence our upgrade of this bug.
The steps are the same as described above:
From Fund
1. Admin -> Server Administration -> Acquisitions -> Funds
2. Click on the name of the funds.
3. Click "Create Allocation"
4. Select the funding source you wish to allocate from from the drop down menu.
5. Enter an amount that is greater than the amount of credit (money) in the funding source. The funding source can be at 0.
6. Click "Apply"
7. Your funding source will now show a negative balance.

Now, as long as the fund shows a balance it is valid for a purchase order, even though there is no "real" money available. To over expend a funding source would be the exception (probably in the extreme) rather than the rule. We agree that "If there is a senario in which a user would want to be able to over-allocate a funding source then there could be the ability to override at this point."