Re: Cash flow statement

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,
The GnuCash cash flow report shows you the flow of money into and out of a set of accounts. Think about it like drawing a line around the selected accounts. The report shows all money that flows across the line. It will ignore anything that does not cross that line. You can see the same accounts in the in and out list if you have money flowing in both directions across the line.
The numbers are correct, but the report might not be what you want. 
Hope this helps.

-derek

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From: "Kash" <kash at warmplanetbikes.com>
To: <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Cash flow statement
Date: Tue, Jan 1, 2013 12:35 PM


I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. Are you saying that the 
actual numbers generated in the cash flow statement are inaccurate?

On 12/31/2012 9:54 PM, Dennis Powless wrote:
>
> The time function ie beginning balance and ending bal is an issue and 
> as far as I can tell not resolved.   Do some searching you will see.  
> Sorry.
>
> D
>
> On Dec 30, 2012 12:53 PM, "Kash" <kash at warmplanetbikes.com 
> <mailto:kash at warmplanetbikes.com>> 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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