Cash Flow Curves in Cost Controls Base Product
With the Cost Controls Base Product, you receive a cost control cash flow that shows Baseline, Forecast, Actual (or Spends), Portfolio Budget, Derived, and Custom curves using an S-curve distribution profile.
Once your project is in operation, your manager sheets are set up, and the Business Processes are in use, Unifier will retrieve the curve data from the Project Cost Sheet to render the Cost Controls cash flow curves.
For Baseline and Forecast curves you can enter dates manually or set the Schedule Manager to automatically control the start and finish dates.
You can create as many Baseline, Forecast, Actual (or Spends), Portfolio Budget, Derived, and Custom curves as you need in a Cash Flow WorkSheet.
Within a Project/Shell, each curve can be created in one of the following detail levels:
- Cash Flow Curve by Project/Shell
- Cash Flow Curve by CBS
- Cash Flow Curve by Summary CBS
- Cash Flow Curve by Commitment (one per base contract)
Note: For company- and program-level cash flow, see Program-Level and Company-Level Cash Flow.
The Cash Flow WorkSheet allows you to:
- View or enter data
- View and compare the curves that you added
There are several ways to create a cash flow curve, including:
- Manual creation
You define all curve properties from scratch. See Cash Flow Properties Settings: General tab (Classic View).
- Templates
You can pre-set curve options, except, for example, actual business process records, and cost sheet columns, which are set at run time. There are two types of cash flow templates:
- Company-level templates, which are created in Standards & Libraries (in Administration Mode).
- Project or shell-level templates, which are created within a Project /Shell template (in User Mode).
See Create a Cash Flow Curve from a Template.
- Auto-creation
Auto-creation of a commitment curve from a base commit record. In the base commit business process workflow set up you can associate a cash flow template with any step except the Creation step. When the base commit record reaches that step, Unifier will automatically create a cash flow curve. See Auto-creation of a commitment curve from a Base commit record.
- Copy
You can copy existing curves from the Cash Flow log, or you can copy data from existing curves. See Copy Cash flow curves and curve data.