Projects do not fail because they were unprofitable. They fail because the money went out before it came in, and nobody had modelled the gap.
Every certificate already carries a valuation date, a due date and a final date for payment. The forecast is what happens when you put money against those dates instead of looking at a single position taken today.
Remaining cycles are projected from the valuation schedule, with the uncertified balance spread on an S-curve, because that is how construction actually runs: slow, fast, slow. An even spread flatters the early months and hides the peak.
Late payment is common enough that a forecast built on contractual dates is optimistic by default. QScope lets you model the behaviour you actually see, so the peak reflects the world rather than the contract.
The tail matters as much as the peak. Retention and an unagreed final account keep the position negative long after practical completion, and a forecast that goes positive at handover is wrong by exactly that amount.
The money coming in is not a guess. It is the net due on the certificates you have already issued, at the figure that reaches your account after retention.
Value a certificate and the receipt joins the forecast automatically. The forecast moves because the job moved, not because someone re-keyed a number into a separate spreadsheet.
A forecast that pays on the valuation date is weeks early and wrong in your favour. The cash arrives on the final date for payment, which the contract counts from the due date.
QScope places every receipt on the statutory final date for payment for the contract form, so the gap between doing the work and being paid for it sits in the forecast rather than being assumed away.
The peak funding requirement is only useful once it leaves the screen. It goes into a board pack, a funding request or a monthly report, on your own letterhead.
QScope prints the forecast alongside the reports a QS already sends, so the cash position sits next to the cost report and the payment schedule rather than in a spreadsheet nobody else can open.
No, and it does not claim to be. It is the cash flow of one contract: money in from client certificates against money out to subcontractors. Own labour, plant and overheads sit in your accounts, not here.
From the valuation schedule in project settings, with the uncertified balance spread across the remaining cycles. You choose an S-curve or an even spread.
Yes. Retention is withheld on the forecast certificates at the correct rate, and released on the dates the certificates and the rectification period produce.
It prints as a document. Whether it suits a funder depends on what they need, and most will want your own cost base alongside it.
Not your whole portfolio. One live job, one certificate. If it does not save you time the first time you use it, walk away and take your data with you.