Cash Flow
You can repoint a plan at a different budget or financing plan, and use that to compare scenarios.
The rail carries the two pickers that decide everything in the grid: **Budget** and **Financing Plan**. **Linked Sources** is where they live.
There is nothing to migrate and nothing to rebuild — the plan holds no amounts, so repointing it simply re-reads. That is a genuine difference from a financing plan, whose budget link is fixed at creation.
It takes a **budget**, or a **cost control set** built on one.
| Source | The plan shows | | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | | **A budget** | the plan — what you intend to spend, when | | **A cost control set** | the current expectation, including what is booked |
Both are supported and both are legitimate. Which one a production works from day to day is a matter of practice rather than a rule — see [plan against a cost control set](/kb/article/plan-against-a-cost-control-set) for what changes when you switch.
It takes a **financing plan**. A project with several — a conservative round and an optimistic one — can be read against each in turn.
This is the module's most under-used capability. Because both pickers are live, one plan can answer several questions in a minute:
- *What if the ZDF deal does not close?* — point at the financing plan without it and read the trough. - *What if we shoot the longer schedule?* — point at that budget. - *Where are we actually, versus where we planned?* — switch expenses from the budget to the cost control set.
The **Cumulated cash flow** row is the answer each time: how deep, and when.
Switching a picker overwrites the previous view. If a scenario is worth returning to, copy the plan and point the copy — then the two sit side by side in the manager with names that say what they assume — see [manage and copy cash flow plans](/kb/article/manage-and-copy-cash-flow-plans).
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