By the end of this guide you'll know how to read the Cash Flows table and the cash flow chart in Covercy One — what each figure represents, how contributions and distributions are summed, and why the numbers you see always reflect the underlying capital calls, payments, and distributions.
Note
Reading cash flow figures is a GP task. You need access to your firm's workspace and to the contact, investing entity, or holding whose cash flows you're viewing. Investors see their own cash flows in the investor portal.
Where to find cash flows
Cash flows appear in the Cash Flows section, which is shown wherever Covercy One has a clear scope of positions to total: on an investor contact's detail page (between the Investing Entities table and Tasks) and on a holding. The section is always present even when there's no activity yet — in that case you'll see an empty state such as "No cash flows yet" rather than a blank space.
Read the Cash Flows table
Each row in the table is one cash flow event — either a contribution (money in) or a distribution (money out, returned to the investor). The columns are:
- Date — when the event is dated. For a contribution tied to a capital call this is the call's due date; for a contribution paid without a call it's the date the payment was received; for a distribution it's the distribution date.
- Type — a badge showing whether the row is a Contribution or a Distribution.
- Holding — the holding the cash flow belongs to (shown when you're looking across more than one holding).
- Investing Entity — the investing entity behind the cash flow (shown when a view can span more than one entity, such as a contact page).