Open numbers
How Business Plan marks numbers it cannot know: needs your value, illustrative or to verify, who clears them, and why a plan stays a draft until you do.
Every number in the model is a cell. A cell the template cannot know carries a flag:
- Needs your value. Only you know it.
- Illustrative. A sample so that the model runs.
- To verify. A default, such as a tax rate or a payroll cost, that you or your advisor must confirm.
Only the owner clears a flag. Setting a number by hand confirms it. The forecast shows how many flags are open, and the plan is marked DRAFT while any input is unconfirmed.
You can edit cells in a grid, or by path in whole cents: streams[pro].priceCents. Edits are all or nothing, and an undo restores the exact earlier model and refuses when a cell changed since.