Cash Flow
You know what the combined and per-company views each show, which question each answers, and why a per-company plan can be quietly missing money.
A co-production is several companies with several bank accounts. A combined plan says whether the *production* survives; it does not say whether the *German partner* can pay its crew in March.
So the plan has two views, and they answer different questions.
| View | Answers | Completeness | | ---------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | | **Combined Producers** | can the production fund itself? | everything | | **Separate companies** | can this company meet its obligations? | only what is attributed |
Neither is more correct. Combined Producers is the default, and it is the view a financier is shown.
**Separate companies** in the rail — *Show separate cashflow for each company*. The **company** picker then chooses which one you are looking at, and the grid heading names it. Turn it off and you are back in combined.
Everything is filtered to that company: income from sources assigned to it, expenses from accounts assigned to it, and its own credits and transfers.
The **Cumulated cash flow** row then answers the question that actually matters to a partner — when that company runs out of money, which is rarely the same date the production does.
**Anything with no company assigned disappears from this view.** The plan warns, with the amount:
*N accounts have no company, so X is hidden unless you view Combined Producers*
That money has not gone anywhere. It is in the plan, correctly scheduled, and simply cannot be attributed to any one company — so a per-company view has nowhere to put it.
**Read the warning before trusting a per-company trough.** An unattributed six figures is the difference between a partner that needs a facility and one that does not.
The combined view has a property no per-company view has: **everything is in it.** An account or a financing source with no company assigned is real money and it is in the plan, and this is the view that can still show it.
The mistake the warning exists to prevent is reading a per-company view as though it were complete.
**Combined Producers** suits financing conversations, the overall trough, and anything about the film.
**Separate** suits partner conversations, deciding who needs a facility and when, and checking that a company is not quietly carrying the production on its own balance sheet.
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