About Cash Flow

The advanced Cash Flow module lets you create a “family of curves,” in which you can include as many baseline, actuals, forecast, portfolio, or custom curves as you need. Each of these curve families can be created in one of the detail levels: cash flow by Project/Shell, by WBS, by Summary WBS, or by Commitment (one per base contract) within a project or shell. Cash flow is the distribution of cost over time - in project management terms, it is the movement of cash into or out of a project measured during a specific time period.

Each group of curves is accessed and managed in a Cash Flow Worksheet, which allows you to view or enter data, and view and compare the curves you have added. To facilitate creation of cash flow curves and roll up of data to program and company cash flow worksheets, your administrator can create the following in Administration Mode:

Data Sources: You can create data sources that can be used to identify cash flow curves and roll up data to program and company worksheets. You will need to create data sources in order to create cash flow curves.

Data sources are created based on a Curve Type -- pre-defined categories of cash flow curves: Baseline, Forecast, Spends, Portfolio, and Custom. You can use these types to create cash flow curves. Each curve type has its own logic to address different business requirements

You can also create Distribution Profiles. You have the option of manually distributing data in the cash flow worksheet, or you can have the system automatically distributing data using a default distribution profile.

You can create cash flow detail curve templates, which will simplify making cash flow curves at runtime within a project and shell; and roll up curve templates, which you can use to create curves in programs to roll up cash flow data from projects or shells.

Note: The advanced cash flow module introduced in Primavera Unifier 9.3 is named “Cash Flow.” Be sure you have the permissions you need to view and work with the cash flow module at the project and shell level, program level and company level.

You will notice that the pre-9.3 cash flow module has been renamed Cash Flow (Basic). This retains all the functionality and cash flow records created before the release of 9.3, and will remain fully functional at this time. Cash Flow (Basic) will be phased out eventually as users move to the enhanced Cash Flow module.

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