Cash Flow
You can record money that one company of a co-production pays to another, and you know how the cash flow plan shows it.
A transfer is money that one company of a co-production pays to another, for example when the lead producer advances money to a partner. You record it in the cash flow plan with **Transfers**. You need an open cash flow plan, a Production licence or a running trial, and at least two companies in the project. If one of these is missing, **Transfers** is greyed out. For the two companies, KOSMA counts every company of the project, including hidden companies and the companies of other budgets.
In the rail, click **Transfers**. KOSMA opens the **Transfers** dialog.
Click  **Transfer**. KOSMA adds a row at the bottom of the list and puts the cursor in **Description**. The new row has the amount 0 in the project's default currency and no date. Fill in the cells of the row. Click a cell once to edit it. KOSMA keeps the value when you leave the cell.
| Column | What you enter | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Description** | what the money is for; the plan shows the transfer by this name | | **Amount** | the amount and, in the same cell, its currency | | **From company** | the company that pays | | **To company** | the company that receives the money | | **Date** | the day the money moves |
In a new row, **From company** and **To company** look empty. If you do not choose a company, KOSMA saves the project's first company as **From company** and the second as **To company**.
To change the order of the rows, drag a row by . To delete a transfer, click  **Delete transfer** in its row. KOSMA asks **Delete transfer?**:
This transfer will be removed from the cash flow.
Click **Delete** to remove the row. Click **Ok** to keep every change you made in the dialog. If you click **Cancel**, KOSMA discards all of them and restores every transfer you deleted. KOSMA saves the transfers in this cash flow plan only. When you copy the plan, the copy has no transfers, see [manage and copy cash flow plans](/kb/article/manage-and-copy-cash-flow-plans).
On the transfer's date, the plan shows two italic rows with its **Description**: one under **Income** for the money that **To company** receives, and one under **Expenses** for the money that **From company** pays. The two rows cancel each other out. In the **Combined Producers** view, the chart and the rows **Cash Flow** and **Cumulated cash flow** therefore do not change. For the rows and the chart of the plan, see [read the cash flow grid](/kb/article/read-the-cash-flow-grid). Money that moves between your own companies does not change any total of the production. KOSMA converts the amount into the project's default currency at the exchange rate of its currency, and the plan shows it in the plan's display currency, see [change the display currency](/kb/article/change-the-display-currency).
When you choose a single company in **Producer**, the plan still shows both rows in full, whichever companies the transfer names. That company's **Cash Flow** does not change either. A transfer therefore cannot cover a shortfall in the plan of a single company. See [view one company, or all of them](/kb/article/view-one-company-or-all-of-them).
KOSMA places most amounts in the plan by their cash flow rule. A transfer has no cash flow rule: KOSMA places it on the date you enter. Credits and the paid cost items of a cost control set also carry their own date, see [add a credit line](/kb/article/add-a-credit-line) and [plan against a cost control set](/kb/article/plan-against-a-cost-control-set). Because a transfer has its own date and names both companies, KOSMA never counts it among the amounts without a cash flow rule or without a company that the rail reports.
A transfer without a date does not appear in the plan. Enter a date in **Transfers**. The **Cash Flow** row never shows a transfer, because the transfer's two rows cancel each other out. Look for it under **Income** and **Expenses**.
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