Cash Flow Forecasting

With the latest Cost release, teams can now create forecast distributions for each budget item and access a project-level cash flow analysis to visualise the difference between planned actual and forecast quickly.

Go to the step-by-step guide to learn how to use the cash flow forecasting functionality.

Connecting Cost and Time

• Connect schedule tasks to budget line items to quickly determine duration and enable calculations for annual price increases.

Built-In Forecast Distribution Curves

• Perform forecast distributions for each budget line item. Choose from four built-in forecast distribution curves, including front-loaded, rear-loaded, typical and linear.
• When performing distributions to items connected to schedule tasks, dates automatically pull in but can be altered if necessary.
• Customise the distribution further by adding or removing date ranges.
• Easily make edits within the forecast final cost field as you make projections.
• The system will auto-flag if the distribution total doesn’t match the forecast-final cost.

Project-Level Cash Flow Analysis

• Access a project-level cash flow analysis in the new Forecast tool. A built-in dynamic time versus money chart allows you to visualise the project-level cash flow distribution throughout the project lifecycle. 
• Within this view, the information is summarised by revised budget, work completed, actual costs and forecast-final cost, which can be viewed by period or cumulatively. 
• Ability to quickly drill down into details.