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.
Flexibility
Whether the payment can be moved, which is what matters in a tight week.
Choice shared type