Cash Flow Report Changes

[Carsten Rinke]

Hi Tim,

not sure if I get which similar thread you are referring to.

Can you give a hint (link, quote, ...)?

Kind regards,
/Carsten

On 04/09/2014 03:12 AM, Tim Barber wrote:
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> 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,
>>
>>
>>     (I hope this nice piece of art survives the mail tranport)
>>
>>
>> It did for me, thanks.
>>
>>
>>     Isn't this a bit inconsistent?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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.