Cash Flow Report

[Derek Atkins]

Please go read the archives.  This has been discussed numerous times.

You're thinking of an Income Report or P&L.  That's I - E.  The P&L shows you
the income and expenses for a period, broken down by account.

Cash Flow is actually talking about the movement of, well, cash.  It takes into
account movement into or out of a set of accounts.  It's not directly related
to income or expense, per se.  It will take into account Loan payments, etc.
that wont show up on a P&L (because it's not an Expense).

-derek

Quoting gnucash at madsteer.com:

> When I think of Cash flow or Net Earnings, I think of
> 
> Income - Expenses = Cash Flow
> 
> for a given period of time.  I have no idea what gnucash's Cash Flow
> report is trying to tell me.  I end up with a positive difference that's 3
> times what my income for that period of time is.  When I go look at the
> options, the only accounts selected are Asset accounts, no Income or
> Expense accounts.
> 
> The report talks about things like "Money into selected accounts from" and
> "money out of selected accounts goes to".
> 
> Anyway, when I wipe the account selections and pick all my expenses and
> income accounts that looks jacked up too.  Not sure what I'm missing.  Can
> someone explain how that report is supposed to work?
> 
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