Cash view vs profit view

One forecast, two questions: when the money moves, and when it was earned. The toggle above the table switches between them.

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Every position in your forecast has one amount and two dates: the day the value is earned or consumed, and the day the money moves. The toggle above the forecast table decides which of the two the table is dated by. Nothing else changes — same drivers, same categories, same numbers.

Cash view

Amounts land on the day money actually moves:

•revenue on the payout day (your provider pays out days after the sale),

•restocking on its purchase-order date — the whole order, on the day you place it,

•salaries on each person's payment day,

•contract fees on their due date,

•plus anything your payment delays re-time (ad impact, payout schedules, supplier deposit/balance installments) — set per company in Settings → Forecasting.

The bottom line is your projected cash balance, carried forward from your anchored balance.

Profit view

Amounts land on the day the value is earned or used up:

•revenue on the day the order is placed or the work is delivered,

•cost of goods sold matched to those orders — orders × average purchase cost, on the days those orders are sold, not on the day the supplier was paid,

•salaries accrued evenly across the month worked (or across the days actually booked, for hourly time),

•a yearly insurance premium spread across the twelve months it covers; a quarterly fee across its three,

•no payment delays at all — when you pay changes nothing about what you earned.

The bottom line is your cumulative profit for the calendar year.

Same totals, different timing

Over any period both views cover in full, the two add up to the same money. The difference is when — which is exactly why a profitable month can still be a tight cash month.

What stays the same

Booked actuals. Past months read from your ledger in both views — the basis only re-dates the forecast half of the horizon.

Categories still forecast from plain history also read the same in both views: their projection is built from booked (cash-dated) history, so there is no second date to move them to. The difference appears wherever a category is driven by something the app knows the timing of — drivers, contracts, employees, projects, purchase orders.

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