Construction loan and cash-flow report

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Nov 1 09:08:06 EST 2004


"Dwight Tovey" <dwight at dtovey.net> writes:

> Ok.  My apologies.  I remember seeing this explanation now.  I wasn't
> seeing this problem at the time, so it didn't register.
>
> I would rather see the transaction in my report, but still have the 0 net
> sum.  From what you are saying then about the cash flow only reporting on
> transactions that flow between the included and excluded groups, I should
> be able to get this by the other scenario that I mentioned in my original
> post on this and use two transactions instead of one:  Loan -> Cash,  Cash
> -> House.  Then if I have both Loan and House in one group and Cash in the
> other group I should see the transactions and get my 0 net sum?  Any
> issues with doing it that way?

I'm not convinced that this really models reality, but I suppose it
gets you the results you want.  I'm not sure why you want to see this
double flow when the net result is zero anyways.  You could always
just run a cash flow report on your loan to see how much you're using
of that.

-derek
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