Actual P&L

Amounts must be entered to the Actual P&L if the user wants to apply the financial rules of the actual P&L in order to enter payments and collections in the initial balance sheet. In fact, in this case it will not be necessary to enter payments and collections in the initial balance sheet. For example, to enter payments against receivables from customers in the balance sheet at 31/12/2015, which relate to the last three months of revenues, instead of giving an average credit term, the user can load the actual P&L data for the last three months which generated the receivable and apply the credit terms to these amounts.

In order for the data to be calculated prior to the estimate start date, it is necessary to set up the Process correctly, indicating a “Calculation start date” for the cash flow planning data process prior to the “Estimate start date”.

If the “Calculation start date” falls in one or more years prior to the simulation start date, the scenario to be used for the management of the Actual P&L must be set as a previous scenario (or belonging to a chain of previous scenarios, where there is more than one) prior to the first planning scenario (which starts from the simulation start date).

Each actual P&L value is managed by process, scenario, or company and its management is exactly the same as that of the P&L forecast.