Cash flow · The cash forecast · Element

The balance

The projected closing position each week, and the lowest point.

The part

What it is

The minimum balance across the horizon is the number that matters, and it frequently occurs in a week nobody was watching.

A minimum threshold should be set below which action is triggered, rather than waiting for zero.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.