This activity is used to create spread profiles which can be used to distribute hours or amounts into different date ranges or periods in project resource forecasting, project budgeting and forecasting and project cash forecasting. The purpose of these spread profiles is to simplify the spreading so that you can select and use a predefined spread profile to perform the spreading instead of entering spreading manually per date range or period. A spread profile can also be set as the default profile for resource forecasts, project forecasts (cost and revenue) and for cash forecasts (cash out and cash in). For instance, when a resource forecast line is added in a company, the spread profile set as default will be automatically proposed for it.