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The topsheet reads whatever the module you opened it from is built on, which is why the same widgets show different columns in Budgeting, Financing and Cost Control.
**Topsheet Info** is a one-page summary of where a production stands. You open it from the left rail, and it is available in **three** modules: Budgeting, Financing and Cost Control.
**Cash Flow has no topsheet.** The button is not on its rail — that is by design, not something missing from your licence or hidden by a setting.
This is the thing worth understanding, because everything else follows from it. The topsheet does not calculate anything of its own. It reads whatever the module you opened it from is built on — so the same widget, opened from two modules, answers two different questions.
| Module | Its topsheet is based on | So the summary compares | | ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | | **Budgeting** | the budget | what the budget contains | | **Financing** | the budget **and** the financing plan linked to it | planned money against needed money | | **Cost Control** | the cost control set, its budget **and** a financing plan | what was planned against what is happening |
Read down that column and the rest of this article is a consequence of it.
- **Budgeting** has only the budget to read, so its widgets show budget figures and nothing to compare them against. - **Financing** has two sides, so the same Companies widget grows a second column: what the plan brings in per company, beside what the budget spends there, and the deviation between them. - **Cost Control** has three, so it adds the live ones: Forecast, and the Variance against budget. It is the only module where the topsheet reports what is actually happening rather than what was planned.
Because Cost Control already reads all three, **being in Cost Control decides the layout even when a financing plan is also selected.** The module wins; a selected plan feeds it a column rather than changing what kind of summary it is.
Open the topsheet for the first time and it comes with a set of widgets already chosen for that module. You can add and remove them afterwards — see [customize your topsheet widgets](/kb/article/customize-your-topsheet-widgets).
| Module | Starts with | | ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Budgeting** | Info, Companies, Effects, Currencies | | **Financing** | Info, Companies, Effects, Currencies, Financing Shares, Financing Gap | | **Cost Control** | Info, Companies, Effects, Currencies, Budget Variance |
A widget can be missing from the picker itself, rather than merely unticked. There are exactly two reasons.
**A second currency.** The Currencies widget lists exchange rates, so it appears only once the dataset uses more than one currency. With a single currency there is no rate to show, and the widget stays out of the list in every module.
**A selected financing plan.** Pick one in **Select Financing Plan** at the top of the topsheet and the plan's widgets become available — **Financing Shares** and **Financing Gap** — in *any* module, Budgeting included. You do not have to be in Financing to see how the plan compares against the budget.
In **Cost Control** a selected plan does one thing more: it puts the **Cash Flow** widget on the topsheet rather than merely offering it, because that widget needs both halves — the plan's received installments and this set's own paid items. No other module can pair them, which is why Cash Flow belongs to Cost Control alone.
Work down this list; it is ordered by how often each turns out to be the answer.
1. **Which module are you in?** The same project's Budgeting and Cost Control topsheets are different documents. Budget Variance exists only in Cost Control. 2. **Is a financing plan selected?** Without one there are no Financing Shares, no Financing Gap, and in Cost Control no Cash Flow. 3. **Does the budget use a second currency?** If not, Currencies is not on offer anywhere. 4. **Is it simply unticked?** Open **Edit Widgets** and look — hiding a widget is the most ordinary reason of all.
And if you are in Cash Flow, there is no topsheet to be missing anything from.
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