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# Finance Calendar
> See bill due dates, invoices, customer payments, recurring bills and entries, period close, bank activity, leases, fixed asset dates and subledger drift on one schedule, with a cash projection and quick create actions.
Use the Finance Calendar when you need a date-based view of accounting work: what is due,
what cash is expected, what recurs, and when periods close. The calendar only shows and
links records. Nothing is posted until you create or run something from it.
## Before You Start
* You need permission to view accounting to open the calendar.
* Creating a recurring bill or a recurring journal entry from the calendar needs permission to
post accounting. The create actions do not check this ahead of time, so without it the save is
refused.
## Open the Calendar
Open **Finance > Overview > Calendar**. You can also get there by:
* Searching for **Calendar** in the command palette.
* Clicking **Calendar** in the quick navigation on the Finance dashboard.
* Clicking a day on the dashboard cash flow forecast chart, which opens the calendar on that date.
* Closing a bank transaction you opened from a Bank (Plaid) event, which returns you to the calendar.
The layer filters, amount range and Forecast toggle are kept in the page address; the view
(Month, Week, Day, List) and the date are not, so a shared link opens in Month view on the
current month unless it came from the dashboard forecast chart.
## Move Around the Calendar
* **Month**, **Week**, **Day** and **List** change the view. Month is best for planning; List is
easiest to scan on a busy range.
* **Previous range** and **Next range** move back and forward one view at a time. **Today**
returns to the current date.
* The heading shows the first and last day on screen.
## Calendar Layers
Each layer is a type of event. Open **Filters** to turn layers on or off; every layer starts on.
| Group | Layers |
| -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Cash & AR / AP | **AP Bills Due**, **AR Invoices**, **AR Payments**, **Recurring Bills**, **Recurring JE**, **Period Close**, **Bank (Plaid)** |
| Leases | **Leases** (commencement and other lease dates), **Lease Payments** |
| Fixed Assets | **Fixed Assets** (lifecycle dates), **Warranties**, **Maintenance** |
| Reconciliation | **Subledger Drift**: days where a subledger and its control account in the general ledger disagree |
The filter panel also has an **Amount range** with **Min** and **Max** to hide small or large
events. **Reset filters** turns every layer back on and clears the amounts. The **Filters**
button shows how many filters are active.
## Open an Event
Click an event to see its **Date**, **Amount** and **Status**. Click **Open** to go to the bill,
invoice, payment, entry or asset it came from.
A **Subledger Drift** event also shows the **GL balance**, the **Subledger** balance and the
**Delta** between them. Click **Investigate** to open **Finance > Close & Reconcile > GL Reconciliation**.
## Forecast
Click **Forecast** to show the **13-Week Cash Projection** above the calendar. It starts from
your current balance and plots the projected daily balance from scheduled receipts and payments.
Days where the projected balance is low are marked as a warning, and days below zero as a shortfall. Click **Forecast**
again to hide it.
## Upcoming Recurring Work
Click **Recurring** to open the **Upcoming recurring** panel. It lists the recurring bills,
recurring journal entries and recurring invoices in the visible range. Click one to open it.
If the panel says **No upcoming recurring events**, widen the date range or turn on the
Recurring Bills or Recurring JE layers.
## Create From a Date
Click an empty area of a day to open the quick create menu:
* **New AP Bill** opens a new vendor bill with that bill date.
* **New Recurring Bill** opens the recurring bill form starting on that date.
* **New Recurring JE** opens the recurring journal entry form starting on that date.
When you save a recurring bill or entry, the calendar refreshes to show its occurrences. What
each one posts, and when, is covered in the Recurring Bills and Recurring Journal Entries articles.
## Busy or Wide Ranges
* **Not every event in this range is shown**: the range holds more events than the calendar can
draw. The banner explains why and offers **Hide** buttons for the busiest layers, each with its
event count, plus **Hide all** when more than one layer is suggested. Hide layers or narrow the
range to see everything.
* **Showing daily totals for this range**: the range is too wide to draw every event, so each day
shows how many events fall on it and their total. Narrow the range to see individual events again.
## Common Scenarios
### An expected bill or invoice is missing
Check that its layer is on in **Filters**, that the **Amount range** does not exclude it, and
that its date falls inside the visible range.
### A date is not clickable
Click an empty part of the day cell, not an event.
### The forecast looks wrong
Compare it with open bills in AP Bills, open invoices in AR Management and your bank balances.
The projection is only as complete as the scheduled items behind it.
## Related Articles
Finance > Overview > Dashboard: daily triage for cash, receivables, payables and alerts.
Finance > Payables > AP Bills: record, approve and post vendor bills.
Finance > Payables > Recurring Bills: scheduled vendor bill templates.
Finance > General Ledger > Recurring Entries: scheduled journal entries.
Finance > Close & Reconcile > Period Close: close and reopen periods.
Finance > Close & Reconcile > GL Reconciliation: where Investigate on a drift event lands.