Cash Flow Curves in Cost Controls

With Cost Controls, you receive a cost control cash flow that shows Baseline, Forecast, Actual (or Spends), Portfolio Budget, Derived, and Custom 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 will retrieve 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 set the Schedule Manager to control the start and finish dates automatically.

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 allows you to:

  • 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.