Cash Flow Curves in Cost Controls

With Unifier Essentials, you receive a Project-Level Cash Flow that shows Baseline, Forecast, and Actuals (or Spends) curves using an S-curve distribution profile.

After your project is in operation, your manager sheets are set up, and the Business Processes are in use, the system retrieves 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 select dates from an Activity Sheet.

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 a Company level Roll up Cashflow, see Company Level Cash Flow and Roll up Curve.

The cash flow worksheet lets you:

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.
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 Admin mode).
- Project/shell-level templates, which are created within a Project /Shell template (in User mode).

See Creating a Project or Shell 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, the system will automatically create a cash flow curve.

See Auto-creating a Cash Flow 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 Creating a Project or Shell Cash Flow Curve by Copying.

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