Create a Cash Flow Distribution Profile
You can create new profiles manually or by copying an existing profile.
To create a distribution profile manually
- Go to the Company Workspace tab and switch to Admin mode.
- In the left Navigator, click Standards & Libraries > Cash Flow > Distribution Profiles in the left Navigator. The Distribution Profiles log opens.
The default Distribution Profiles record displays in the log. All profiles are stored in this record.
- Select Distribution Profiles in the log and click Open (or double-click Distribution Profiles). The Edit Distribution Profiles window opens.
The left side of the window displays the list of the distribution profiles. The right side of the window displays a graphical representation of the profile and is used to define it.
- Click the New button. This adds a new row to the Distribution Profiles list.
- Enter a unique Name for the profile (up to 30 characters).
- Be sure the Active checkbox is selected if you want it to be available for cash flow curves. If you deselect this checkbox, the profile will not be available for selection on curves.
- Define the distribution profile on the graph by entering values in the Profile % slots.
By default, when you create a new distribution profile, the graphical display will be a linear distribution. (5% is entered into each of the 20 slots: 5% x 20=100%.) You can modify this profile by entering a value for each slot for the Profile %. The graph will reflect the values that you enter.
You can enter values with up to two decimal places per slot. Press the Tab key to move one slot to the next. The total of all the slots for the Profile % must add up to exactly 100%.
- When the distribution profile is complete, click the Save button.
To create a distribution profile by copying an existing profile
- In the Edit Distribution Profiles window, select a profile and click Copy. A new row is added, and the selected profile information is copied.
- Enter a new Name for the copied profile. Make any changes to the profile values as needed and click Save.
Note: Per design (for example, in a Front Loaded Distribution Profile), if the Profile % reaches 100% before the 20th bucket (the zero is displayed at this point), and there is still unallocated budget remaining, when a Cash Flow Forecasting is linked to the Spends, the remaining unallocated budget will not be automatically distributed to the buckets with zeros.
Last Published Monday, August 28, 2023