Cash Flow
You can record money moving between your own companies, and you know why it disappears in the combined view.
In a co-production money moves between partners constantly — the lead producer funds the minority partner's prep, a subsidiary is topped up before payroll. **Transfers** is where those movements are recorded.
Open it with **Transfers** in the rail — *Add a transfer between companies*.
Click **Transfer** and fill in:
| Field | What it is | | ---------------- | ---------------------------- | | **Description** | what the movement is | | **From company** | the company the money leaves | | **To company** | the company it arrives at | | **Amount** | how much | | **Currency** | which currency | | **Date** | when |
Unlike almost everything else in the plan, a transfer is not placed by a cash-flow rule — you give it a date and it sits there. It is one of only two things a cash flow plan authors itself, the other being credits.
That makes sense: a transfer is a treasury decision, not a consequence of the budget or the financing plan.
In **Combined Producers** a transfer changes nothing, because the production as a whole neither gained nor lost — the money moved from one of its pockets to another.
In **Separate companies** it is visible and consequential: an outflow on one company's curve, an inflow on the other's.
So a transfer is invisible exactly where it should be, and decisive exactly where it matters. If you have added one and cannot see it, check whether you are in the combined view — see [view one company, or all of them](/kb/article/view-one-company-or-all-of-them).
Transfers are how you **fix** a per-company problem you have found. The sequence is the point of the feature:
1. Switch to separate companies. 2. Find the partner whose cumulated line goes negative, and when. 3. Add a transfer from a partner with cash, dated before that point. 4. Re-read both curves.
That is treasury planning for a co-production, and it is the reason the module bothers to model companies at all.
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