Method and system for integrating calendar, budget and cash flow of a project

A system for generating budgeting information for an entertainment industry project, including:

• a processor configured to:
• provide a calendar,
• provide a scheduling user interface based on the calendar,
• provide a financials user interface,
• receive an indication of a project phase and a time period associated with the project phase,
• receive financial data associated with the project phase,
• associate the indication of assets with the calendar for display on the scheduling user interface and the financial user interface, thereby allowing the user to input or edit scheduling, and financial data to a single dataset, thereby associating the received financial data with the time period associated with the project phase,
• automatically generate financial documents based at least in part on the time period and the financial data,
• link scheduling information to the financial data for the project, and
• a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions,
• wherein the financial documents include budgeting information and cash flow information, with the budgeting information automatically integrated as a single dataset with the scheduling information and the cash flow information, with the budgeting information automatically integrated to the cash flow information, and with the scheduling information automatically integrated to the cash flow information, and vice versa, through the single dataset from a single database to associate scheduled project phases or departments with the correlating budget department to link departmental information automatically across multiple documents by obtaining the budgeting information, the scheduling information and the cash flow information from the single dataset,
• wherein the assets, the time period and the financial data fed to the budgeting information, cash flow information and scheduling information are automatically integrated into the single dataset, so that changes to the assets, the time period and the financial data in the single database automatically reflect in each of the financial documents, budgeting information, cash flow information and scheduling information and any user interfaces, allowing users to view the cash flow as multiple user interfaces extracted from the same that share the same core data and therefore reflect updates in one user interface across all user interfaces showing budget, schedule and cash flow,
• wherein the scheduling user interface comprises a calendar user interface displaying a plurality of calendar bars,
• wherein each calendar bar is each associated with a project phase, and
• wherein the calendar bars are automatically displayed in an order associated with an order associated with the project phases,
• and wherein a project associated with the budgeting information is associated with entertainment production.

A computer program product for generating budgeting information for an entertainment industry project, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

• providing a calendar and a scheduling user interface based on the calendar;
• providing a financials user interface;
• receiving an indication of a project phase and a time period associated with the project phase;
• receiving financial data associated with the project phase;
• associating the indication of assets with the calendar for display on the scheduling user interface and the financial user interface, thereby allowing the user to input or edit scheduling, and financial data to a single dataset, thereby associating the received financial data with the time period associated with the project phase;
• automatically generating financial documents based at least in part on the time period and the financial data;
• and
• linking scheduling information to the financial data for the project,
• wherein the financial documents include budgeting information and cash flow information, automatically integrating the budgeting information as a single dataset with the scheduling information and the cash flow information, the budgeting information automatically integrated to the cash flow information, the scheduling information automatically integrated to the cash flow information, and vice versa, through the single dataset from single database to associate scheduled project phases or departments with the correlating budget department to link departmental information automatically across multiple documents by obtaining the budgeting information, the scheduling information and the cash flow information from the single dataset,
• wherein the assets, the time period and the financial data fed to the budgeting information, cash flow information and scheduling information are automatically integrated into the single dataset, so that changes to the assets, the time period and the financial data in the single database automatically reflect in the financial documents, budgeting information, cash flow information and scheduling information and any user interfaces, allowing users to view the cash flow as multiple user interfaces extracted from the same that share the same core data and therefore reflect updates in one user interface across all user interfaces showing budget, schedule and cash flow,
• wherein the scheduling user interface comprises a calendar user interface displaying a plurality of calendar bars,
• wherein each calendar bar is each associated with a project phase, and
• wherein the calendar bars are automatically displayed in an order associated with an order associated with the project phases,
• and wherein a project associated with the budgeting information is associated with entertainment production.