About cash flow forecast

[mybuyer at roadrunner.com]

On Sep 12, 2009, at 12:37 AM, Yawar Amin wrote:

> mybuyer at roadrunner.com wrote:
>>> From: Daniel Trezub <daniel3ub <at> gmail.com>
>>> Subject: About cash flow forecast
>>> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.user
>>> Date: 2009-09-11 18:55:04 GMT (7 hours and 54 minutes ago)
>>> Interesting article that deals with cash flow forecast, along other
>>> things.
>> ...


>> All I really need is a graph showing the future balance of selected
>> accounts based on today's value and scheduled transactions for a
>> specified but adjustable time period (this week, this month, this
>> year). Future cash flow, no budgeting targets.
>
> When you say you want to include scheduled transactions in your  
> graphs,
> but you don't want to have future transactions in your financial  
> record,
> what's the difference? They're just two different ways of saying that
> these transactions will take place in the future. Everything else is
> just a technicality.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yawar
>

The difference is that the future transactions are not in the ledger  
and I can take advantage of scheduled transaction features like  
reminders and those pop-up payment windows.