Cashflow Setup
In APMS you set up the cashflow in Settings->Cashflow Setup with three elements that define your production on an abstract timeline.
1. MILESTONES are single important events like "The first day of principal shooting", "End of shooting", "Final cut" or whatever you think is an important milestone for your production.
2. PHASES define time spans for various phases of your production, like "Shooting", "Postproduction", "Editing" or whatever you think are important phases to set up your cashflow.
3. PROCESSES are series of events on the timeline, e.g. recurring payments like crew payments, or payments by a fund connected to milestones.
With these three elements you set up your production on an abstract timeline. In the budgets and financing plans you can use these elements to assign cashflow rules to the accounts.
The advantage of this is that you do not have to care about dates while in planning stage. You only have to define one single date (4) at the end and everything on the timeline will have a date as well. And if something changes in the planning of your production you will not have to change every single cashflow definition in your budget, but you can centrally control everything from this settings tab.
