Cash Flow Report Changes

[Tim Barber]

On 4/8/2014 8:11 PM, Robin Chattopadhyay wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de 
> <mailto:carsten.rinke at gmx.de>> wrote:
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>     Hi Robin,
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>     (I hope this nice piece of art survives the mail tranport)
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> It did for me, thanks.
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>     Isn't this a bit inconsistent?
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> Perhaps, but I have that luxury since I'm keeping books for myself 
> with no tax or reporting consequences. :-) The checking account is the 
> only account I use the cash flow report for so I've never had to 
> consider what the report looks like from the perspective of the other 
> accounts.
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> In any case, in the course of thinking through my use case, I decided 
> to change how I was booking this transaction and turn it into two 
> transactions.
Be forewarned that you will now have extra transactions in your register 
so when you go to reconcile the account against your statement you will 
have more work.
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> Now, I will credit the checking account for the entire payment of 
> $141.00 and debit the prepaid account for the same. The second 
> transaction will credit the prepaid account and debit the electricity 
> and gas accounts. The remainder in the prepaid account shows how much 
> I owe (or am owed).
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> This meets my needs and makes the cash flow report work for me.
This goes against a similar thread regarding the new changes to the Cash 
Flow report where it can't handle a single transaction that has both 
credits and debits against an account.