opening balance, saving accounts exclude from cash flow

Yawar Amin yawar.amin at gmail.com
Sun Feb 8 12:39:44 EST 2009


Hi

If your cash flow report in Gnucash doesn't include your account transfer
from one bank to another, it's doing the right thing. Balance transfers
between different asset accounts don't count as cash flow; only income and
expenses do. (Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.)

If you want to see a Gnucash report that completely matches your bank's
account activity report, simply get a transaction report (Reports >
Transaction report, and then Options, choose only your asset & liability
accounts to see their transactions).

HTH

Yawar

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:

>
> Hello
>
> I am using gnucash for about a month and run into a problem for which I
> can't find a solution.
>
> Example
>
> Let us say I started with 10000 $ which I transfered to the checking
> account.
>
> I protocol my income (salary) and my expenses, rent, debit card, credit
> card etc.  The cash flow report coincide nicly with my bank extracts.
>
> However after a month I have 12000 on that account and want to move say
> 5000 to a saving account (of another bank).
> No problem: I open a new saving account in my assets and transfer from my
> checking account into my saving account.
>
> The problem is only that now the cash flow does not correspond any
> longer with my bank extracts, since the 5000 dollar still appear (since
> the opening balance had them) but I
> don't want them to be included in my cash flow.
>
> How can I achieve this?
>
> The only solution I can see is to change manually the opening balance
> which I find odd.
>
>
> thanks
>
> Uwe Brauer
>
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