The financial statements
The Financials page in bluprnts holds your forecast cash flow, profit and loss and balance sheet, readable in plain language or under your reporting standard.
The Financials page holds the three statements bluprnts derives from your plan: the cash flow statement, the profit and loss, and the balance sheet. They are outputs, not inputs — you never type a figure into them. Every line is calculated from the products, sales, employees, costs and financing you entered, across your model's forecast periods.
Find them in the left sidebar, under Statements → Financials.
Switch between the three statements#
The first control in the page header chooses the statement: Cashflow, Profit and Loss, or Balance Sheet. The KPI strip above the table changes with it, so the headline figures always belong to the statement you are looking at.
| Statement | Answers |
|---|---|
| Cash flow | Where the money actually moved, and when |
| Profit and loss | Whether the business makes money |
| Balance sheet | What it owns and owes at each point |
Choose how they read#
The second control chooses the view — the same figures laid out three different ways. Switching view re-lays the statement; it never recalculates it, so no number can change as a result.
| View | What it does |
|---|---|
| Simple | Plain language, fewer subtotals. "Money in from customers", "What you own". For reading the business, not reporting it. |
| Accounting | The layout your reporting standard prescribes, with the proper subtotals and terminology. The default. |
| Previous | The way the statements read before the current layouts existed, kept so the two can be put side by side. |
Under Accounting, the layout follows the reporting standard set in your company options — FRS 102, IFRS or US GAAP. FRS 102 and IFRS present these statements identically, so they share a layout; US GAAP differs on several lines and has its own.
Your choice of view is saved on the company, so everyone looking at it sees the same thing.
Read the table#
Every statement uses the same grid, with the same controls in its toolbar:
- Monthly / Quarterly / Yearly — the column period. Monthly is month by month; quarterly and yearly group into calendar quarters and calendar years.
- By size / A–Z — sort the lines within each group by the biggest figure, or alphabetically. Groups themselves always keep the statement's own order.
- Expand / Collapse — open every group at once, or shut them. Individual groups open and close by selecting their heading.
- Goes below £0 — appears only when the closing bank balance dips negative at some point in the forecast. Selecting it jumps you to the month it happens.
Period, sort and which groups you have open are remembered per statement, saved against your user, so they follow you between sessions and devices.
Projects are included, or not#
The project layers strip above the table switches each project on and off. A project that is switched on contributes its products, sales, people, costs and financing to these statements; one that is switched off contributes nothing. Toggling a layer rebuilds the statements immediately.
The statements also follow whichever scenario is applied — see Set the working case.
Related#
- Bank balance — the cash position these statements close onto.
- Statement lines — every line, and where it comes from.
- Reporting standard — set FRS 102, IFRS or US GAAP.