Cash Flow Report Changes

[Carsten Rinke]

   Hi Robin,
   My understanding is that you prefer a cashflow report that interprets
   the transaction below like this:
   Asset ---------------------> Electricity
     ^            \
     |             \
     |              ----------> Gas
   Prepaid
   Running the same cashflow report on the Prepaid account should then
   result in
   Asset       ---------------> Electricity
     |        /
     |       /
     V      /----------> Gas
   Prepaid-/

   and running it on the Gas account would result in
   Asset ---            Electricity
            \             ^
             \            |
              \           |
   Prepaid ------------> Gas
   (I hope this nice piece of art survives the mail tranport)
   Isn't this a bit inconsistent?
   Kind regards,
   /Carsten

   On 04/07/2014 01:07 AM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:

   I skipped over this thread when it first came up, but I just noticed
   the behavior described in #722140. My use case for the cash flow report
   appears to match that of Tim Barber and John Halton.
   In my household/personal finance (no business features) scenario, I pay
   a single vendor for electricity and natural gas. Further, I pay a flat
   amount (averaged monthly payment) regardless of usage. Once or twice
   per year, the utility will true-up what I've paid with what I owe (or
   they owe me since the difference can go either way).
   I track the actual monthly expense based on usage and offset the
   remainder against a "prepaid expense" asset account.
   The transaction looks like this in the register:
   Expenses:Utilities:Electricity.......69.18
   Expenses:Utilities:Natural Gas...122.18
   Assets:Checking.................................(141.00)
   Assets:Prepaid Expenses......................(50.36)
   In the cash flow report (selecting only Assets:Checking) however, it
   looks like this:
   Expenses:Utilities:Electricity........50.97
   Expenses:Utilities:Natural Gas.....90.03
   I understand Carsten's argument (I think) about physical flows, but I
   think there is a clear use case for a cash flow report that addresses
   logical flows. In other words, my combined expense for electricity and
   natural gas was $191.36, but I only paid $141.00 this month and that
   remaining $50.36 had to come from *somewhere*.
   I tried the suggestion of using the Transaction Report with the "Other
   Account Name" checked. This, however, didn't solve my problem because
   the transactions with multiple splits are just reported in that report
   as "Split Transaction".

   On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Carsten Rinke <[1]carsten.rinke at gmx.de>
   wrote:

     hmm, no replies so far.
     Does that mean there are no cashflow report users out there?
     Carsten

   On 04/01/2014 03:12 AM, Tim Barber wrote:

     After upgrading to 2.6.2, I have come across a difference in the
     Cash Flow report which I believe is not correct. The problem is that
     now a transaction cannot have both an expense and income. An example
     would be for a deposit, I have also have a cash expense that I would
     record in the deposit. This worked well previously because the
     report would show both the income and expense as well have a single
     entry in the register which is what I would see in the bank
     reconciliation at the end of the month (which made the
     reconciliation a breeze). With 2.6 I can either do a double entry
     for the Cash Flow report which made reconciling a pain, or have a
     single entry in the register and the Cash Flow report not show both
     the income and expense (see Bug 722140 for a complete history). To
     be honest, I believe how 2.4 worked is correct and in line with
     other accounting packages.
     With the help of Carsten Rinke, I have tried everything I believe in
     2.6 to get it to act like 2.4 but with no luck.
     Any suggestions would be appreciated.
     Tim Barber
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