Cash Flow
You can set the plan's start and end dates, and you know what depends on them.
**Start** and **End** in the rail bound the plan. Each has a date picker — *Set start date of cashflow*, *Set end date of cashflow*.
It decides how many period columns the grid has, and it is what the **Start/End Balance** rows need in order to exist: *Balance at start and end if a start and end date are set.*
Without both dates you still get income, expenses and the cumulated row. You do not get balances — which are usually the reason a bank is looking at the plan.
**Start** early enough to catch development and prep spend. Productions routinely begin the window at the shoot and then wonder why the plan opens already negative — the money that dug the hole was spent before the window began.
**End** late enough to catch the last financing instalment. Final fund payments often land months after delivery, and a window closing at picture lock shows a production that never recovers.
The full window runs from the first euro spent to the last one received.
Placements outside the window are not in the grid. That is worth knowing when a total looks short: money scheduled before the start or after the end is real, scheduled, and simply not in view.
Widening the window is the first thing to try when a plan's figures do not reconcile with the budget or the financing total.
Changing the dates re-buckets the same placements. Nothing is deleted by narrowing the window and nothing is invented by widening it — so it is safe to move the dates around while you are working out what to show.
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