Cash flow · The cash forecast · Element

The outflows

Expected payments by week, including the ones that are easy to forget.

The part

What it is

Payroll, tax, rent and recurring payments are predictable; the ones that break forecasts are annual charges and quarterly liabilities.

Committed but unbilled costs belong here too, since the obligation exists regardless of when the invoice arrives.

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.