Cash Flow
You can see the production's milestones and their dates beside the plan, and you know why a payment anchored to a milestone moves with it.
In the rail beside the plan, the **Milestones** block lists the production's milestones in date order, each with its colour, name and date. You see where the shoot and the other stages of the production fall in the plan. In the demo project, the block lists seven milestones, from **Financing Closed** on 1 May 2026 and **First Shooting Day** on 24 July 2026 to **Final Delivery** on 17 February 2027. The block is for reading only: clicking a milestone does nothing.
KOSMA counts every milestone in days from one fixed milestone, **First Shooting Day** in the demo project. A milestone's date is the date of the fixed milestone plus or minus the milestone's number of days. In the demo project, **Mid-Shoot** lies 18 days after First Shooting Day, on 11 August 2026. If the fixed milestone moves, every milestone moves with it. If you change the number of days of one milestone, only that milestone moves.
A payment anchored to a milestone moves when the milestone moves, and the plan shows it in its new period. A payment on a fixed date stays on that date. If the shoot moves, such a payment can fall on a date that no longer fits the production. For how a rule places a payment, see [how an amount becomes a period](/kb/article/how-an-amount-becomes-a-period). To correct a payment that no longer fits, see [fix an outdated cash flow rule](/kb/article/fix-an-outdated-cash-flow-rule).
The grid shows no milestones. The waterfall chart shows each milestone as a coloured dot, without its name, under the period that contains its date. See [read the waterfall chart](/kb/article/read-the-waterfall-chart).
The plan shows the milestones of the budget or cost control set its expenses come from. If the plan uses a budget, it shows the budget's milestones. If it uses a cost control set, it shows the set's own copy of the timeline, which KOSMA made when the set was created.
You change milestones and phases in the **Timeline**. To open it, click  **Timeline**. The button is there in every module, Cash Flow included. For the steps, see [set up milestones](/kb/article/set-up-milestones). For how phases and milestones work together, see [what phases and milestones are](/kb/article/what-phases-and-milestones-are).
The **Milestones** block is empty when the fixed milestone (**First Shooting Day** in the demo project) has no date. Without that date, no milestone has a date, the waterfall chart shows no dots, and payments anchored to a milestone have no date either. Give the fixed milestone a date in the **Timeline**.
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