Budgets, finance plans & cash flow · Working
Sources and uses
ELI5
A summary matching sources of finance to intended uses of funds.
Used in conversation
“Legal needs to review the sources and uses before we circulate the project.”
Pitch context
You may encounter “Sources and uses” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.
Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.
Connected terms
- Production budgetA production budget details costs; sources and uses pairs funding sources with the expenditures they finance.
Sources & evidence · 8
Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.
- World Intellectual Property Organization — Rights Clearance: A Guide for Independent FilmmakersSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- World Intellectual Property Organization — Rights, Camera, Action! IP Rights and the Film-Making ProcessSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- Writers Guild of America West — No Writing Left BehindSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- Writers Guild of America West — Fight Back Against Free WorkSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- Producers Guild of America — Producing Credits for Episodic Television (Scripted)Supporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Producers Guild of America — Producing Credits for Non-Fiction TelevisionSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Format Recognition and Protection Association — FRAPA Format ResourcesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- U.S. Copyright Office — Copyright BasicsSupporting source family · primary · checked 2026-08-14