Cash Flow Report

[Charles Brescia]

Derek:
    Thank you for your input, the P&L report IS the format I am looking
for, but I have been used to seeing that format in my Cash Flow reports in
other financial software.  There are a couple of minor but manageable
issues with a P&L report that do not occur with Cash Flow.  Both revolve
around the fact that P&L pulls data from Income & Expense categories and
Cash Flow pulls data from Asset and if included Liability accounts.  I like
to compare year over year expenses to try and spot trends and problems
before they become an issue, and when I use the P&L report for a prior year
I have to date it from 1/1/?? to 12/30/?? because of the way GnuCash closes
out Income & Expense categories.  If I date it all the way to 12/31/?? I
get nothing but zeros.  Also by excluding my auto loan & mortgage loan from
the report in Cash Flow the principal payments to the loan balance appears
in the "money out" section where in the P&L report they are not there, the
interest payments are but not the principal.  I'll probably use both the
pictures are slightly different for those reasons.  Thanks again.

Charles


On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Charles Brescia <clbrescia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well I'm used to seeing Cash Flow reports in other software I've used
> display that way, but I'll take a look at the Profit & Loss Report and see
> if that gives me what I'm looking for.  Thanks.
>
> Charles
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This sounds like you want a P&L Report, not a Cash Flow report.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Charles Brescia <clbrescia at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hello:
>> >     I am currently running GnuCash 2.4.15 in Linux Ubuntu 14.04.  I use
>> > cash flow reports extensively and would like to see them display a
>> > little differently.  Currently if I have an expense category/account
>> > that has either rebates or reimbursements the rebates/reimbursements
>> > display as an income category as the same name as the expense category,
>> > and then the expenses show under expenses.
>> >     What I would prefer is that the rebates/reimbursements to an expense
>> > category show as a negative expense or in other words to reduce the
>> > total amount of the expense.  The same would hold true for negative
>> > incomes as well, as they are currently showing up under expenses rather
>> > than adjusting the main income category.
>> >     Also when you initially run a report (any report) the progress bar
>> > in the lower right hand corner works.  But if you select options make
>> > changes and rerun the report the progress bar no longer shows the
>> > progress.  Not a big deal but it would be nice particularly for a large
>> > report that may take a while to load.
>> >     Thank you for your time.
>> >
>> > Charles
>> >
>> >
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