Splits in Cash Flow report

[Maf. King]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 18:50:52 Nowl wrote:
> Derek Atkins wrote on Thu, 3 Dec 2009:
> >You're doing it wrong.  The Cash Flow report is designed to tell you the
> >CASH FLOW into an out of a set of accounts.  It's designed to work
> >around your Assets and Liabilities.
> >
> >It sounds like you really want the P&L report (aka Income Statement).
>
> Hi Derek
>
> Thanks for your reply, though I think it's meant for me rather than Maf

Hi Nowl,

I'm learning too!  And, since my mail client filters all the GC list mails 
into their own folder, I hadn't noticed that Derek had replied directly to 
me....

Are you running cash flow on each individual asset account? I think that the 
report is supposed to be used to report on txns from [Assets OR 
liabilities] -> [Expenses OR Income]  not those between asset (or liability) 
sub-accounts.

I suspect that Derek is suggesting that unexpected results are, in this 
particular case,  expected!

Maf.

>
> :-)
>
> However, could you see my reply to Maf? The problem *does* occur in a
> Cash Flow report on an asset account (Petty Cash), because it is
> included in a split transaction. I was doing the end-of-year accounts
> for a small charity and wanted exactly what the Cash Flow report showed:
> where money came from and where it went, for three asset accounts:
> current bank, Petty Cash and Savings. Unfortunately, for Petty Cash it
> showed money coming in that really went to another account in the split,
> then being paid out from it to that other account.
>
> All amounts are correct in a Cash Flow report for the account the money
> came from (current bank account) so it does seem to be something to do
> with the way splits are handled.



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