Cash Flow
You can keep several plans side by side and copy one to test a scenario.
**Cash Flow Plans** lists every plan in the project. Open it from the plan dropdown.
Name, comment, **Linked to**, Lock, Modified, Server and Shared — the same shape as the other module managers. **Linked to** is the column worth the habit: it says which budget and financing plan each is reading, which is the difference between two plans that otherwise look alike.
The dropdown separates plans in this budget from those in others.
Use **Copy Cash Flow**, from the dropdown or the manager's copy action.
Copying is cheap here, because a plan is settings rather than data — a window, a period choice, two source pickers, its credits and transfers. There is no risk of divergence to manage.
This is the difference from the other modules. In financing or cost control you copy to **preserve** a state before it changes. Here you copy to **compare**, because a plan re-reads its sources every time you open it.
The pattern:
1. Copy the plan. 2. Name the copy after the assumption — *Cash flow without ZDF*, *Cash flow, longer schedule*. 3. Point the copy at the other budget or financing plan. 4. Read both cumulated rows.
Keeping the assumption in the name is what makes the manager readable in three months. *Cash flow (copy)* tells nobody anything.
A copy carries the window, the period granularity, the display currency, the detail level, the company view, and the plan's own credits and transfers.
What it does not carry is any amount — because the plan never held any. Both plans read live from their sources, so a correction in the budget reaches every plan pointing at it.
Delete from the manager, with a confirmation. A deleted plan takes its credits and transfers with it, since those are the only things it authored — everything else lives in the budget and the financing plan and is untouched.
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