Cash Flow
You can tell apart the two reasons KOSMA warns about when money is missing from a cash flow plan, and you know which fix each one needs.
KOSMA warns about two reasons why an amount from the budget or the financing plan is missing from a cash flow plan: its account or source has no cash flow rule, or it has no company. The two reasons need different fixes. The **Linked Sources** panel shows which one applies. Check it before you rely on the figures of a plan, above all on a plan someone else built.
When you open a plan with a gap, KOSMA shows a short message for each reason. It closes by itself after 5 seconds, or you close it earlier with ×. Neither message names a number or an amount. For a missing rule, KOSMA shows:
Some accounts and sources have no cash flow rule, so their amounts are missing from this cash flow.
For a missing company, KOSMA shows:
Some accounts and sources have no company, so their amounts appear only under Combined Producers.
KOSMA shows the message again only when the gap changes, for example after an edit or when you switch to another plan.
The **Linked Sources** panel has one line for the budget (or the cost control set) and one line for the financing plan. On each line,  marks accounts or sources without a cash flow rule, and  marks accounts or sources without a company. An icon appears only while there is something to report, and it disappears as soon as the last account or source is fixed.
As soon as you open the plan, a red bubble opens under  on one line at a time. You cannot close it. As long as an account in the budget has no rule, the bubble is on the budget line:
There are accounts (=expenses) in your budget which do not have a cash flow rule. The cash flow display of the expenses is incomplete.
Once every account has a rule and a source still has none, the bubble moves to the financing plan line:
There are sources (=incomes) in your financing plan which do not have a cash flow rule. The cash flow display of the income is incomplete.
Below the text, the bubble shows the link **Click here to complete**. The bubble names no number and no amount.
While the bubble is on the budget line, you can point at  on the financing plan line. KOSMA then shows how many sources have no rule and how much is missing:
{number} sources have no cash flow rule, so {amount} is not in this plan
When you point at  on the budget line, KOSMA shows:
{number} accounts have no company, so {amount} is hidden unless you view Combined Producers
On the financing plan line, KOSMA shows:
{number} sources have no company, so {amount} is hidden unless you view Combined Producers
KOSMA places an amount in a period only through its cash flow rule; see [how an amount becomes a period](/kb/article/how-an-amount-becomes-a-period). An account or source without a rule and without a date of its own is in no period, and not in **Before** or **After** either. The warnings count only totals above 0: an account or source with 0, without an amount or with a negative amount, such as a discount, is never reported. Credits and transfers you enter in Cash Flow have their own date and are never missing.
You do not set the rule in Cash Flow. You set it in the module the plan reads. Click **Click here to complete** in the bubble. For expenses from a budget, KOSMA opens **Budgeting** on that budget. For expenses from a cost control set, it opens **Cost Control** on that set. For income, it opens **Financing** on the linked financing plan. If KOSMA cannot find the budget or financing plan the plan reads, the link does nothing. To set a rule there, your licence must let you edit that module; see [what your licence includes](/kb/article/what-your-licence-includes). For the steps, see [find accounts without a cash flow rule](/kb/article/find-accounts-without-a-cash-flow-rule) and [find sources without a cash flow rule](/kb/article/find-sources-without-a-cash-flow-rule). Once an account has a valid rule, the plan's expenses under **Combined Producers** grow by the account's total.
Company warnings appear only when the project has more than one company. With a single company, the **Producer** dropdown is greyed out. An account has no company when no company has a share above 0 in it. An account split 40/60 between two companies therefore has a company. A source has no company when none is assigned to it. Accounts and sources with a total of 0 never count.
**Combined Producers** shows every account and source in full, including those without a company. It hides no amount for lack of a company. A single company's view shows only that company's share of each account and source, and leaves out the ones it has no share in. An account or source without a company is therefore missing from every single company's view.
To fix it, give the account or source a company. If you do not need the split by company, choose **Combined Producers** in **Producer** instead. See [view one company, or all of them](/kb/article/view-one-company-or-all-of-them).
The warnings do not cover every difference between the plan and the budget:
- In a single company's view, the rule warnings count only that company's share of the missing amounts. - The company warnings count money that **Combined Producers** already shows. It is missing only from the single company's view. - Part or all of an account or source with an invalid cash flow rule can be missing from the plan, and no warning counts it. The same goes for a rule based on a milestone when the project has no **First Shooting Day**, and for the refundable input VAT of a taxed account without a rule. - An amount dated outside the plan's window is not missing. KOSMA adds it to **Before** or **After**; see [read the Before and After columns](/kb/article/read-the-balance-rows).
The cash flow plan does not warn about outdated rules. You find them in Cost Control; see [fix an outdated cash flow rule](/kb/article/fix-an-outdated-cash-flow-rule).
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