Cash flow forecast

[Derek Atkins]

Marielle Fois Pelayo <marielle at interactors.coop> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am completely new to gnucash. In fact, I haven't even intalled it
> yet (on my powerpc that may be a bit problematic...). Anyway, before
> installing it I would like to know whether it has support for cash
> flow forecast. I searched through the documentation, the web site, and
> the mailing list, and found out that gnucash does generate cash flow
> and balance reports, so I suppose you can also generate cash flow
> forecast reports with it. Can anyone confirm this, please?

It can't forecast anything, yet.  Gnucash has no budgetting support,
and none of the reports use the Scheduled Transactions.  You can,
however, get a "forecast" by post-dating transactions and then running
the report in the future.

> Thanks in advance,

-derek

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