Cash Flow
You know where each figure in a cash flow plan comes from, which budget and financing plan the plan reads, and where you change a figure.
A cash flow plan shows, period by period, when money goes out and when it comes in. It takes its expenses from a budget or a cost control set and its income from a financing plan. From these figures, KOSMA calculates the balance of each period, the running total, the VAT settlement and the interest on credits.
You choose both when you create the plan in **New Cash Flow**, see [create a cash flow plan](/kb/article/create-a-cash-flow-plan). In the plan, **Linked Sources** shows the two names: first the budget or cost control set, then the financing plan. If KOSMA cannot find one of them, it shows a dash in place of its name. To read a different budget, cost control set or financing plan, create a new plan, see [choose what the plan reads](/kb/article/choose-what-the-plan-reads).
With **Update**, the plan always shows the current state of the budget or cost control set and of the financing plan. With **Snapshot**, it keeps them as they were when you created the plan. What a Snapshot plan keeps exactly is described in [create a cash flow plan](/kb/article/create-a-cash-flow-plan).
You cannot edit any cell in the grid. Apart from credits and transfers, expenses come from the accounts, subaccounts and markups of the budget or, for a plan that reads a cost control set, from its cost items and the forecast for the remaining costs. Income comes from the sources and instalments of the financing plan. The cash flow rule on a budget account or on a financing source sets when its amount is paid. See [set a cash flow rule on an account](/kb/article/set-a-cashflow-rule-on-an-account) and [set a cash flow rule on a source](/kb/article/set-a-cashflow-rule-on-a-source).
- If an expense is missing or wrong in an **Update** plan, change it in the budget. For a plan that reads a cost control set, change it in Cost Control. - If income is missing or wrong in an **Update** plan, change it in the financing plan.
If a budget account or a financing source has no cash flow rule, KOSMA cannot place its amount in a period. KOSMA then flags the budget or the financing plan under **Linked Sources** with a warning mark . If an account or a source has no company, KOSMA flags the budget or the financing plan there too, with a company mark . See [why something is missing from the plan](/kb/article/why-something-is-missing-from-the-plan).
The plan keeps its own settings:
-  **Start** and  **End** set the window of the plan. See [set the plan window](/kb/article/set-the-plan-window). - **Budget Detail** sets whether the plan shows expenses by **Category** or by **Group**. See [choose the budget detail level](/kb/article/choose-the-budget-detail-level). - **Currency** sets the currency in which the plan shows its figures. See [change the display currency](/kb/article/change-the-display-currency). - **Producer** sets which company the plan shows. See [view one company or all of them](/kb/article/view-one-company-or-all-of-them).
Two kinds of figure belong to the plan itself. They carry their own dates and follow no cash flow rule.
- **Credits**: money you borrow, with its own repayment dates and interest. See [add a credit line](/kb/article/add-a-credit-line). - **Transfers**: money you move between the companies of a co-production. See [record a transfer between companies](/kb/article/record-a-transfer-between-companies).
To change a cash flow plan, you need a **Production** licence or a running trial. With a **Budget** or **Cost Control** licence, you can open and read the plan, and KOSMA disables the controls that change something. When you point at a disabled control, KOSMA tells you why:
You don't have editing access to this module with your licence. Upgrade your licence — or ask your team admin, if your licence comes from a team.
With a **Free** licence, you can read only what others share with you. In a plan shared with you, KOSMA shows this reason on a disabled control:
This dataset is locked because your Free licence does not allow editing it. Upgrade your licence — or ask your team admin, if your licence comes from a team.
As a guest, you see cash flow plans only if the project owner lets you see Cash Flow in the project settings. You then see the plans of the budgets that you created or that are shared with you. You can change a shared plan only if it is shared for editing and your licence covers Cash Flow. Only one person edits a shared budget at a time. See [how sharing works](/kb/article/how-sharing-works).
In the demo project, you can change the plans with every licence. See [what your licence includes](/kb/article/what-your-licence-includes).
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