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A PFD represents the allocation of budget authority to designated entities and/or functions accountable for resource management; Allocation of an apportionment occurs in the form of allotments, sub-allotments and allocated budget authority to fund operations at varying lower levels of accountability. These allocated amounts represent the expenditure limits for the allocation recipients, i.e., expenditure transactions that include amounts that cause the allocated balance to be exceeded are rejected or suspended until sufficient budget authorization is available or the transaction cancelled. |