Hi Soheb,
When you run the Merchant Plant financial model with a performance model that runs a simulation over a single year, you can calculate the output in Years 2 and later by applying the degradation rate to the Year 1 data.
The cash flow tab on the SAM results page displays rows of cash flow items. Each row is an SSC output variable. Most of them are preceded by "cf_" to make it easier to identify them. There is not a single function that displays the entire cash flow.
The code that displays the cashflow in SAM is written in SAM's LK scripting language. You can find it here on GitHub to use as a reference:
github.com/NREL/SAM/blob/develop/deploy/runtime/cashflow.lk
Best regards,
Paul.