Cash Flow
You know what a cash flow plan based on a cost control set shows, how you create one and why you keep the plan based on the budget next to it.
A cash flow plan can take its expenses from a cost control set instead of the budget. It then shows the costs you now expect and the payments you have already made. You choose this source when you create the plan in **New Cash Flow**, and you cannot change it later. Keep a second plan based on the budget to keep seeing its figures.
**Linked Sources** on the left shows where an open plan gets its figures: the cost control set first, the financing plan below it. For a different expenses source you need a new plan, see [choose what the plan reads](/kb/article/choose-what-the-plan-reads). For the steps, see [create a cash flow plan](/kb/article/create-a-cash-flow-plan).
The demo project has one plan of each kind, both with the same financing plan. The plan whose name ends in **Plan** reads the demo budget. The plan whose name ends in **Current** reads the cost control set. KOSMA created that plan itself.
For each account of the cost control set, the plan shows three kinds of amounts:
- A paid cost item appears on its payment date with the amount paid. It counts as paid when it has both a paid amount and a payment date. - An unpaid cost item appears with its estimate, scheduled by its own cash flow rule. - The rest of the account's **Forecast** is scheduled by the account's cash flow rule. With a forecast of 10,000 € and cost items of 6,000 €, that is 4,000 €.
KOSMA does not read the budget's rows for this plan, so no cost counts twice. For how the plan groups expenses by category or group, see [choose the budget detail level](/kb/article/choose-the-budget-detail-level).
The accounts of the cost control set carry copies of the budget's cash flow rules.
A cost item you add by hand, import or paste starts without a cash flow rule. Until you give it a rule or it is paid, it counts as a cost item without a cash flow rule.
When there are such items, **Linked Sources** shows a red bubble. Its link **Click here to complete** opens Cost Control with the rows that have no cash flow rule. A **Snapshot** shows no bubble and no link for a source it keeps as a copy, see [why something is missing from the plan](/kb/article/why-something-is-missing-from-the-plan). To find these cost items, see [find accounts without a cash flow rule](/kb/article/find-accounts-without-a-cash-flow-rule).
If the rule of an unpaid cost item points to a date in the past, the plan shows no warning. The estimate then lands in a past period. If the date falls before the plan window, the amount appears under **Before**. To fix this, see [fix an outdated cash flow rule](/kb/article/fix-an-outdated-cash-flow-rule).
Once a cost control set is linked to a budget, KOSMA locks the budget for editing. The plan based on the budget therefore keeps showing the figures of the approved budget.
When you create a plan, you choose whether it follows changes to its sources (**Update**) or keeps a fixed copy (**Snapshot**). A plan based on the cost control set and created with **Update** changes with every cost item. A **Snapshot** keeps its own copy of the cost control set and of the financing plan's rows. Later changes to cost items do not appear in it.
Each plan has its own **Cumulated cash flow** row. Enter credit lines and transfers between companies with **Credits** and **Transfers**, separately in each plan that needs them.
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