You can create cash flow curves either manually or automatically. You can also use existing cash flow curve templates to facilitate the creation of cash flow curves.
Cash flow curves require a data source, which your administrator can create in Standards & Libraries. For details refer to the Unifier Administration Guide.
There are multiple ways to create a cash flow curve (new, from a template, or copy). The following describes the basics of how to create a cash flow curve in Unifier.
Note: You must have permission to access and configure cash flows.
To create a cash flow detail curve:
- Open Unifier and go to your project or shell tab.
- Ensure that you are in User Mode.
- From the left Navigator click Cost Manager > Cash Flow.
- From the Cash Flow log select your project or shell.
- From the Cash Flow log toolbar click Create to open the New Cash Flow Worksheet.
- Note: At this point, you can also select a cash flow template, if one is made available by your administrator. To select a template, click the down-arrow next to New and select a template.
- In the Name field, enter a name for the new cash flow curve.
- In the Description field, enter a brief description about the new cash flow curve.
- In the Detail Level field, select the desired detail level from the dropdown menu.
- When Project / Shell is selected as the detail level, you can choose between two filtering options to determine the cash flow data displayed by the curves:
1. Filter CBS codes (selected by default)
2. Filter Summary CBS codes
- A dropdown menu will appear based on your selections.
- When Summary CBS is selected as the detail level, a Summary CBS Codes Filter dropdown menu will appear. CBS codes will be filtered based on your selections.
- When CBS is selected as the detail level, a CBS Codes Filter dropdown menu will appear. CBS codes will be filtered based on your selections.
- When a Commitment type Business Process is selected as the detail level, a Select Base Commit Record dropdown menu will appear.
9. Under Rollup cashflow data to company/program, select Yes or No.
10. Under Time Scale, select the desired Period Type from the Period Type dropdown menu.
- When Standard Planning Period is selected, you will see two dropdown menus:
1. By: Select Month or Year
2. Format: Select the desired date format
- When Financial Periods is selected, you will see a read only text box with the project financial period name.
11. In the Curves pane, select the desired data source for the new cash flow detail curve from the Add Curve dropdown menu. Each curve that you add is based on a data source that your administrator has defined as is available in this list.
- Note: Each data source can only be used once in a Cash Flow Work Sheet.
12. Based on your selected data source, a curve setup window opens.
13. Review the information in the curve setup window. The Name and the Curve Type fields are auto-populated and cannot be changed.
14. Click OK to go back to the New Cash Flow Worksheet. Notice that the curve is now listed in the Curves pane.
You can select another curve from the Add Curve dropdown menu to create a curve based on a different data source.
When finished, click Save & Close.