Cash Flow
You can show the expenses of a cash flow plan per budget category or per account group, and you know that the totals stay the same.
**Budget Detail** in the rail sets how finely the **Expenses** rows of the cash flow grid break down the budget. A new plan starts at **Category**. KOSMA saves the level with the plan. Everyone who opens the plan sees the level chosen last.
| Level | **Expenses** shows | | ------------ | --------------------------------------------- | | **Category** | One row per budget category | | **Group** | One row per account group, with its name only |
At both levels, the accounts and subaccounts add up into the row of their category or group. A category or group gets a row as soon as a cash flow rule applies to one of its accounts, even when that rule places no payment. Such a row stays empty. A category or group without any cash flow rule gets no row. At **Group** level, the grid shows no category rows above the groups. Each markup keeps its own row at both levels, after the category or group rows. The rows for credit repayments, outgoing transfers and taxes and the **Income** rows stay the same at both levels.
The totals are the same at both levels. KOSMA sorts the same payments into other rows and does not recalculate anything.
Choose **Category** when someone outside the production team reads the plan. In a few category rows, a financier sees faster where the money goes than in one row per account group.
Choose **Group** when you need to explain a month with high costs. At **Category** level, the plan shows only which category costs that much. At **Group** level, the same month shows which account group the costs come from. That tells you where to act.
The level sets how many rows the grid has. The period length in the toolbar, **Weekly**, **Bi-Weekly** or **Monthly**, sets how many columns it has. **Category** with **Monthly** gives the fewest rows and columns, for presenting the plan. **Group** with **Weekly** gives the most, for finding the cause of a problem.
The printout shows the same rows and periods as the grid. Choose the level and the period length before you open the print dialog. Together with the paper size and the orientation, they decide how many pages the printout has. For the print options, see [print a cash flow plan](/kb/article/print-a-cash-flow-plan).
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