Project Budgets...again

I continue to struggle to understand what NetSuite expects you to do about project budgets.  We have many projects, internal and external and they are comprised of labor, and various materials (item), and expenses.  When we establish a project, we have these budgeted to the line item.  As the project goes along, we continously monitor and report on the budget to actual until the project closes and we assess project ROI.

It's very odd to me that the advanced project module has no budget, other than labor costs.  If I were to set up a project budget in the financial module, there appears to be no way to to link to it or create it as a sublist in the project module, meaning my PMs would have to go to a totally seperate area to create and view the budget.