What a cash flow plan reads – Cash Flow

What a cash flow plan readsCash FlowYou know that a cash flow plan takes its expenses from a budget and its income from a financing plan, and which module owns each number.A cash flow plan assembles two things you have already built:- **Expenses** — from a **Budget**, or a Cost Control Set. - **Income** — from a **Financing Plan**.It places them in time and shows what is left. The plan holds no amounts of its own.The two pickers**Budget** and **Financing Plan** in the rail name what the plan reads. Change either one and every figure in the grid changes.Where a wrong number comes fromThe grid shows what the other two modules told it. So a number that looks wrong is almost never wrong here:- An expense is missing → look at the budget. - March shows no income → look at the financing plan.This is also why the plan warns rather than errors. It cannot give a budget account a cash-flow rule; it can only tell you the account exists and its money is not here — see [why something is missing from the plan](/kb/article/why-something-is-missing-from-the-plan).What the plan ownsThree things, and only these three:- **The window** — the start and end dates — see [set the plan window](/kb/article/set-the-plan-window). - **Credits** — borrowing, with its own dates and interest — see [add a credit line](/kb/article/add-a-credit-line). - **Transfers** — money moved between your own companies — see [record a transfer between companies](/kb/article/record-a-transfer-between-companies).Everything else in the grid came from the budget or the financing plan.Build them in this orderA cash flow plan can only be created once a budget and a financing plan exist: budget → financing → cash flow — see [create a cash flow plan](/kb/article/create-a-cash-flow-plan).Markdown