Cash Flow

[adewe...@gmail.com]

Is there any way to get a time phased expenditure cash flow from the application? Thanks.

[Vicky Stamatopoulou]

Hi, 

In Merlin Project by a view, in Merlin 2 by a report.

In Merlin Project…

Work Breakdown > Cost Planning

right click the outline and call ‘Show Gantt Chart’

In Merlin 2

By a custom report template as of here:

http://macpm.net/en/merlin/merlin-%E2%80%93-do-a-bit-of-magic-in-reports-%E2%80%93-part-xi

BTW. it would help the users of this forum to know which Merlin version you are actually referring. Answers wouldn’t need to show ways in both Merlin versions and it would save time and energy for those writing and for those reading ;-)

Best regards, Vicky

On Jul 24, 2015, at 12:32 AM, adewe...@gmail.com wrote:

Is there any way to get a time phased expenditure cash flow from the application? Thanks.

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[michae...@gmail.com]

I'm wondering if I can use Merlin 4 to predict cash flow into the future. This would be a chart similar to the Merlin 4 screenshot pasted in the previous message. But the income from each phase (entered as a negative base cost) as well as the costs, should accumulate from one month to the next. The benefit of this (vs using some other software) is that I can experiment with adjusting the timing of phases, and interactively see the impact on cash flow.

I can accomplish it using the "accumulate" checkbox after clicking the top header of the box chart. Together with a milestone for the initial cash balance, e.g. the balance on June 1.

My question is, is there a way to "reset" the accumulation, or set its starting date? The accumulate feature works well moving into the future, e.g. it's June and I can predict the cash balance in July, August, and September, starting with a milestone for the initial cash balance on June 1. But when July comes around and June is in the past, I need a way to reset the July 1 balance to the actual bank balance. I don't suppose that's possible? All I can think of is to remove all income and costs prior to July 1.

Thanks, hope that makes sense.