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 once, when you create the plan in **New Cash Flow**. To keep seeing the figures of the budget, you keep a second plan based on the budget.
Once you choose a cost control set in **New Cash Flow**, it offers as income only the financing plans linked to that cost control set, not the budget's own financing plans. In the plan, **Linked Sources** shows the name of the cost control set first and the financing plan below it. You cannot change the expenses source of an existing plan. 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, and both take their income from 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 creates the plan ending in **Current** 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. A cost item counts as paid when it has both a paid amount and a payment date. - A cost item that is not paid appears with its estimate, dated by its own cash flow rule. - The part of the account's **Forecast** that no cost item covers yet appears dated by the account's cash flow rule.
KOSMA does not read the budget's own 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. KOSMA dates the part of the forecast that no cost item covers by these 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. In this plan, the link **Click here to complete** opens Cost Control and shows the rows without a cash flow rule. To find these cost items, see [find accounts without a cash flow rule](/kb/article/find-accounts-without-a-cash-flow-rule).
The plan shows no warning when the rule of an unpaid cost item points to a date in the past. KOSMA then places its estimate in a past period or under **Before**. To find these cost items, use the filter **Outdated cash flow rule** in Cost Control. For the fix, 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. The plan based on the cost control set changes with every cost item. Each of the two plans has its own **Cumulated cash flow** row. Credit lines and transfers belong to the plan in which you enter them. Enter them in each plan that needs them. A plan you create as a **Snapshot** also keeps its own copy of the financing plan's rows.
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