Cash Forecast in the sidebar opens your library of forecast studies. A study is a recurring piece of forecasting work — it keeps its assumptions, its frozen opening base, and every run it has produced, so this month's forecast and last month's live in one place instead of scattering into one-off reports.
The library
Each study shows its budget, cadence, status, and when it was last updated. Click a study to open it.
Reading a forecast
A study opens on its latest completed result — the most recent forecast that actually finished. The frozen base it was computed from is shown alongside, so you always know what the projection stands on.
Which month the opening base is taken from
A study's opening balance is frozen at the newest financial period your ledger reports as closed — never the month currently in progress. A part-posted month is the trough of the working-capital cycle, not a close, and a forecast built on one would start from a figure that is going to move.
The period is read from your own financial calendar, so a March–February year is treated as a March–February year. You do not configure this on the study.
A period counts as closed once your ledger has moved past it — either because a later period already carries postings, or because the period's end date has passed in the data we hold. Late entries posted back into a month after that point won't change a base already frozen; the study's next run picks the position up.
If no period has closed yet, the run is held rather than run against a guess, and the reason says which it is:
- No period is complete — the ledger only holds the month in progress. The run goes ahead on its own once the month closes and the figures land.
- No financial calendar is confirmed — nobody has told us when your financial year ends, so nothing can be shown to have closed. Confirm your year end and the study resumes.
- The ledger has not landed — no periods at all have come through yet.
A held run is not a failed one: nothing is overwritten, the previous forecast and its base stay exactly as they were, and the study picks up at the next scheduled slot.
Refreshing
Refresh forecast checks whether a newer completed run exists and shows it if so. If nothing newer has finished, your current report stays exactly as it is — a refresh never replaces a good forecast with one that is still running or one that failed. If a refresh can't complete, you'll see a notice and the previous result remains on screen.
Where forecasts fit
A forecast study is not a report and not a chat answer: reports live in the Reports catalogue, completed investigations live under Analysis, and recurring forecast work lives here. If you're looking for a one-off analysis rather than a study, check Analysis in the sidebar.