Cash Flow
You know which budget and financing plan a cash flow plan reads, when you choose them and how you compare a second scenario.
A cash flow plan reads two sources: a budget or a cost control set for the expenses, and a financing plan for the income. You choose both when you create the plan in **New Cash Flow**. After that, you cannot change them, and **Copy Cash Flow** keeps the sources of the original, see [manage and copy cash flow plans](/kb/article/manage-and-copy-cash-flow-plans). To read a different budget, cost control set or financing plan, create a new plan. **New Cash Flow** offers only the open budget and its cost control sets, so open the budget you want first. For the steps, see [create a cash flow plan](/kb/article/create-a-cash-flow-plan).
In the plan, **Linked Sources** shows the names of both sources: first the budget or cost control set, then the financing plan. For where each figure comes from and where you change it, see [what a cash flow plan reads](/kb/article/what-a-cash-flow-plan-reads).
For the expenses, a plan reads either a budget or a cost control set built on that budget.
| Expenses source | The plan shows | | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | A budget | the planned costs, dated by the cash flow rules of the accounts | | A cost control set | paid cost items on their payment date, the other cost items by their cash flow rule, and the unbooked rest of each account's **Forecast** |
With a cost control set, KOSMA leaves out the budget's planned costs, so nothing counts twice. For the details, see [plan against a cost control set](/kb/article/plan-against-a-cost-control-set).
To plan with the costs you have booked, choose a cost control set as the expenses source in **New Cash Flow**. The **Income source (financing plan):** list then shows the financing plans linked to that cost control set and the financing plans of the budget it is based on.
Create one plan per scenario, each with its own sources. For example, two plans read the same budget but different financing plans: one with a particular financier and one without. Give each plan a name that says what it assumes, and switch between the plans in the plan dropdown.
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