Cash Flow
You can read from the waterfall chart the balance at the end of each period, the lowest point of the plan and the period in which the balance recovers.
The waterfall chart shows how much money the production has at the end of each period. Use it when you present the plan to people who have never opened KOSMA, for example a funder, a bank or a co-producer. The chart is above the cash flow grid and has no title. It has one bar above each period column. When you scroll the grid up or down, the chart stays in place. When you scroll sideways, it moves with the grid.
Each bar shows the balance at the end of its period, the figure in the **Cumulated cash flow** row of the grid. The step from the bar before to this bar shows what the period itself brought in and paid out. The grid shows that amount in the **Cash Flow** row. Each bar starts at the zero line. KOSMA labels it with its amount, without decimals. A bar at or above zero is blue. A bar below zero is red and shows its amount in red. If the plan has no payments, the chart shows an empty frame.
Three horizontal lines cross the chart: one at the highest balance, one at zero and one at the lowest balance. The left margin shows the amount of each line. If the balance never falls below zero, the bottom line lies on the zero line and shows 0. The same goes for the top line if the balance never rises above zero.
If the grid shows the **Before** and **After** columns, the chart has a bar for each of them at its two ends. **Before** shows the balance before the first period, **After** the balance after all payments. To find out when the two columns appear, see [read the Before and After columns](/kb/article/read-the-balance-rows).
The lowest bar is the lowest point of the plan. The caption under the bar names its period. The turn is the first bar after the lowest one that is higher again: from there, the balance recovers. A large payment or instalment shows as a large step between two neighbouring bars.
Under each bar, the chart shows a coloured dot for each milestone whose date falls in that period. The dot has no name, and no name appears when you point at it. You find the name in the **Milestones** block in the rail beside the plan: the milestone with the same colour is the one the dot stands for. For example, a dip that starts at the dot of **First Shooting Day** and ends at the dot of **Last Shooting Day** lies between these two events. To show milestones on the plan, see [show milestones on the plan](/kb/article/show-milestones-on-the-plan).
The chart shows the same periods and the same company as the grid. When you choose **Weekly**, **Bi-Weekly** or **Monthly**, or another company, the chart changes with the grid. A bar shows the balance at the end of its period. A dip that starts and ends within the same month therefore does not show in **Monthly**. In **Weekly**, it shows.
In **Monthly**, the chart has fewer bars than in **Weekly**. A long plan can still be wider than the screen, and then you scroll the grid sideways. For how KOSMA divides the plan into periods, see [read the cash flow grid](/kb/article/read-the-cash-flow-grid).
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