Actuals (Spends) Curve and Forecast Curve
The system complies with the initial profile. If Actuals (or "spends") are received for a portion of the curve, and the Forecast curve is connected to Actuals (or "spends"), the system takes the already-consumed-profile portion out of the equation and redistributes the unconsumed pending profile portion.
Examples:
- The Forecast curve starts from Jan 2022 - Dec 2024, stretching the system's default 20 point distribution profile over 36 periods.
- Actuals were received January 2022, February 2022, and March 2022.
- These three periods of Forecast curve already consumed 1.67 points of period distribution.
- The Forecast end date is now changed to December 2025.
- The Forecast curve is now March 31, 2022, to December 2025.
- The system then distributes the remaining 18.33 points of profile over 45 periods.
Note: The system generates Actuals information at the start of the day and uses it to update the Forecast information. Therefore, on the last day of an Auto Snapshot (the cutoff date), the Forecast does not include changes that might have occurred between the generation of the Actuals and the generation of the Forecast and the system might prevent you from updating Actuals information on the last day of the cycle.
If there are some CBS codes that have received Actuals (or "spends") and some CBS codes that did not, the CBS codes that did not receive Actuals (or "spends") will be replaced by 0 at the end of the month, or on the cutoff date (depending on the UI settings).
If there are some CBS codes that have received future Actuals (or "spends") and some CBS codes that did not, the Forecast curve will not reflect future Actuals (or "spends") until they become current.
The following section explains the Forecast curve.
Last Published Tuesday, April 8, 2025