Adding Actuals (Spends) Curve for Cash Flow by Business Process (Commitments)

A Commitment BP (such as a Base Commit or a Change Commit) is a sub-type of a Cost type BP.

You can build one Actuals (Spends) curve per Business Process (Commitments) record.

To add an Actuals (Spends) curve for cash flow by Business Process (Commitments):

  1. Go to your project or shell (User mode).

    This is the project or shell that contains the cash flow that you want.

  2. In the left Navigator, expand the Cost Manager node.
  3. Click the Cash Flow sub-node to open the Cash Flow log.

    The Cash Flow log is the starting place for cash flow operations. The log displays all existing cash flow curves and also provides options for creating new curves, copying curves, viewing curve properties, and assigning curve usage privileges to other users.

  4. Select the cash flow from the Cash Flow log.
  5. Click the gear menu ( ) and click the Properties option to open the Cash Flow Properties window (or the Cash Flow Properties worksheet).
  6. In the Cash Flow Properties window General pane, ensure that a record under the Business Process (Commitments) label is selected from the Detail Level drop-down list. The options under the Detail Level drop-down list are:
    • Project/Shell
    • Summary CBS
    • CBS
    • Business Process (Commitments)
  7. In the Cash Flow Properties window Curves pane, click the Curves drop-down list and select Actuals (Spends) to open the Actuals (Curve Type: Spends) window.

When you select the Business Process (Commitments) option in the Detail Level drop-down list, and a Base Commit record (from Select Base Commit Record) in the General pane, and in the Curves pane you add Actuals (Spends) curve (from the Curves drop-down list), proceed to set up the following parameters:

Granularity

The options that you can select from are:

  • By Business Process
  • By line items from Schedule of Values (SOV)

The cash flow Granularity option that you select determines the:

  • Distribution Method options that are available.
  • Level of record detail available in the cash flow curve.

You can roll up Base Commit and Change Commit and see individual records separately, or you can drill to individual line items in a Business Process (Commitments) record.

Cost

Under the Select Spends Business Process field:

Add or remove business process from the list.

Variance

Your choices are:

  • Inflow
  • Outflow

For Business Process (Commitments), typically, the Variance is set to Inflow for a Baseline type curve.

The value will be used to calculate variances against the Outflow type curves.


Last Published Sunday, July 20, 2025