Cash Flow
You can decide how much of the budget's structure the expense rows show.
**Budget Detail** in the rail decides how deep the expense side of the grid goes — **Category** or **Group**.
| Level | Expense rows | | ------------ | --------------------------------------------- | | **Category** | one row per budget category — the coarse view | | **Group** | one row per account group within them |
Only the depth changes. Every total is identical either way, because both are summaries of the same placements.
**Category** suits anything you are showing someone. A financier wants to see the shape of the production's spend, not sixty group rows.
**Group** suits working out *what* is causing a period. A heavy month at category level tells you production costs are high; at group level it tells you it is the camera department, which is something you can do something about.
The two together decide how dense the grid is, and the useful combinations are at the ends:
- **Monthly + Category** — the presentation view. Fits on a page, reads in seconds. - **Weekly + Group** — the working view. Dense, and where problems are actually diagnosed.
Switching between the two as you move from investigating to presenting is the normal rhythm of using this module.
Set it before you print. A cash flow printed weekly at group level runs to many pages and is read by nobody; the same plan monthly at category level is one page and gets read — see [print a cash flow plan](/kb/article/print-a-cash-flow-plan).
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