Cash Flow

Definition

A cash flow contains flows (planned and actual records) that are generated from the conditions of a class, a financial transaction, or by functions such as accruals/deferrals or key date valuation, as well as flows that are entered manually. They all appear in chronological order.

Use

The securities area distinguishes between the following cash flows:

This cash flow displays all the planned or executed flows for a security in a securities account in chronological order. These flow records can be generated in various ways:

This cash flow shows you all the flows that were generated for a securities purchase or sale.

See also: Transaction Cash Flow

From the master data for the classes, you can display a fictitious cash flow showing all the flows that are generated from the conditions entered for a fictitious purchase with a nominal value of 100,000 or 100,000 units.

Cash flow tasks

Structure

You can enter the following data for the position on a particular day in the lines above the individual flows:

This area is, of course, not included in the fictitious cash flow in the class master data.

The cash flow has 8 columns:

  1. Either the Calculation date, Due date or Payment date of a flow.

    2. Use the Switch date button to switch between these dates.

  2. Position change amount
  3. Currency of the position change
  4. Name of the flow (e.g. purchase, sale, interest, etc.)
  5. Calculation basis (only if you chose the calculation date)
  6. Planned/actual record indicator
  7. Flow type
  8. Days used as a basis for calculation (only if you chose the calculation date)

Function

  1. You can determine which flows you want to display using the Show flow button. You can restrict your selection to:
    1. Flows that change the position
    2. Revenue flows
    3. Cost flows
    4. Adjustment flows
  2. To make other entries for the calculation basis for a certain flow, position your cursor on the relevant item and choose Calculation base.
  3. In the cash flow for the securities account overview or order entry, you can branch to the details screen for flows by double-clicking a single entry. The Cash Flow: Related Flows screen appears.

Double-clicking a selected item again takes you to the screen headed Display Flow.

Here, you can display General data, Posting data, User data and Technical data for the flow. By choosing Edit you can branch to the transaction data (of the securities account transfer, the order or the corporate action) and to the FI document.