Cash Flow Report

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Tom Peterson <thomas.tap.peterson at gmail.com> writes:

> It's that time a year again when I try to use the reports.  The Cash
> Flow report does not report what I expect it to report. I created a
> cash flow report for the previous year and it appears to be missing
> data and reporting incorrect values.
>
> Here is what I did.
> 1. Selected menu item Reports -> Income & Expense -> Cash Flow
> 2. Selected Edit -> Report Options
> 3. Set General: From to Previous Year Start
> 4. Set General: To to Previous Year End
> 5. Selected Select All from the Accounts tab
> 6. Pressed Apply.
>
> In the list is Expenses:Medical:Doctor with a value of $304.76. This
> value is incorrect. Expenses:Medical:Doctor had a beginning balance of
> $100.00 and an ending balance of $3509.80. I expected the Cash Flow
> report to report $3409.80. I have no idea what the $304.76 corresponds
> to.
>
> Expenses:Medical:Medicine is not in the list at all and it should have
> shown up with a couple of thousand dollar value.
>
> For the fun of it I went to the Accounts tab, pressed Clear All,
> selected Expenses:Medical:Medicine, and pressed Apply.
> Expenses:Groceries was listed in the Cash Flow Report as the only
> Money out account in the list!
>
> Am I just misunderstanding the intent of the Cash Flow report? What's
> being reported?

You're misunderstanding the intent of the Cash Flow report.  Please read
my previous emails on this topic, I'm not going to repeat it yet again.
Try using the P&L report (aka Income Statement)

> I running version 2.29 under Ubuntu.

Wow, man from the future!  We're still working on the 2.3 release series!

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-derek

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