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When we attempt to force maintenance spending into specific lumps of time that do not meet the needs of our machines, we create the need to defer maintenance. Maintenance budgets fail because budgeting authorities do not understand the disastrous consequences of deferring maintenance. I was asked to create a 16-week college course in the management of maintenance. During the creation, I made four significant discoveries concerning the financial management of maintenance and created rules to cover them.