Cash flow statement

[Kash]

Come on guys, help me out here. Does nobody have an answer to my question?

All I need to know is why the cash flow statement GnuCash generates does 
not look like examples of cash flow statements in accounting references 
and how to produce one that does.

On 12/30/2012 9:50 AM, Kash wrote:
> I'm attempting to generate a cash flow statement. The default 
> statement that gnucash generates looks nothing like the standard 
> example shown in accounting references like this one:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow_statement
>
> I'm assuming that because GnuCash doesn't know which accounts are cash 
> and which are non-cash, I need to modify the raw report.
>
> I'm unclear on three things:
> 1.) Why do some accounts show up in both money in and money out 
> sections of the cash flow?
>
> 2.) There are three lines that appear in most examples of cash flow 
> statements:
> Net income
> Cash at beginning of period
> Cash at end of period
> That do not seem to appear in the GnuCash statement. How do I derive 
> these lines?
>
> 3.) If I remove the non-cash accounts from the GnuCash cash flow, what 
> other steps do I need to take to produce an accurate cash flow statement?
>
> I recognize that these questions are partially accounting questions, 
> and if I was more familiar with the underlying principles it would be 
> easy to build what I want from scratch. If anyone can point me to a 
> gnucash specific  instruction page, that would be very helpful.
>
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