Profit and loss/Cash Flow reporting question

Wed May 31 16:13:30 EDT 2017

Good afternoon and thank you for your answer.So I understand now that the cash flow report and P&L can be different and you explained why.
I owe a business loan to the previous owner (owner financed). I made a payment to her and I was thinking this should be an expense? So right now it does show in the cash flow report but not in the P&L report.
This is how I build up GNU cash:March: Business Purchase: Loan (stock purchase)  $xxxx   (in EQUITY)April: Payment 1- business loan $xxx    (comes off in Assets: Checking account)
Did I make a mistake in the way I build GNU or is a business loan not an expense?Thanks for clearing this up.
Martijn Heuts

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 20:38:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Martijn Heuts <usadutchies at bellsouth.net>
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 Hello,
I am trying to understand the reporting part and trying to figure out my net profit. First I pull up my monthly "Cash Flow" report which shows all incoming money into my bank account andit shows all expenses?taking out of my bank account (assets).
Then there is the?Income and Expenses?report.? This?report?shows "Income" which doesn't add up to the actual income, so I assume it's "Charges" instead, right? (I?had some?client's only paying half their balance at the time of the order).Then?it shows expenses?which seem to be all actual expenses, BESIDES some expenses from a liability account.
Let me explain:I just bought?this business a few months ago?and because of circumstances I could not order?a product directly from a particular vendor as my new account was not setup yet. Instead (with the previous owner's permission) I ordered it through the previous owner's old account. This became a liability?account in GNU?Cash for me. So the expenses I had?for the product I put?in to a?liability account as I needed to pay the owner back (instead of the vendor).
Now in the?Cash Flow report this expense shows up, as I paid her via a check which came off my debit account (asset)But in the Income and Expenses report this?expense does not show up (probably because I can't mark this as an expense and liability at the same time).
So with all this said I am trying to figure out my profit as the Cash Flow expenses are different than the Income and Expenses report.
I hope I am making some sense. I appreciate any help you can provide.Thanks and have a great day!
Martijn
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 18:09:12 -0400
From: Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at dialup4less.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Profit and loss/Cash Flow reporting question
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On 5/30/2017 4:38 PM, Martijn Heuts wrote:
>  Hello,
> I am trying to understand the reporting part and trying to figure out my net profit. First I pull up my monthly "Cash Flow" report which shows all incoming money into my bank account andit shows all expenses taking out of my bank account (assets).
> Then there is the Income and Expenses report.  This report shows "Income" which doesn't add up to the actual income, so I assume it's "Charges" instead, right?
Stop right there.

I think you are confusing what a "cash flow" report is supposed to show 
(flow of cash) and what an "income statement" (aka P&L) is supposed to show.

Your example indicates the confusion.
a) You paid an expense by assuming a liability.
    That would show in P&L but NOT in cash flow
b) You late paid off this liability
    That would show in cash flow but NOT in P&L

BOTH of these reports can be important for a business for different 
reasons.  Business can be fine in terms of P&L (it's making a profit) 
but might not have cash on hand when needed. Or a business might be fine 
in terms of cash flow but facing long term troubles because losing money.

To see your net profit, use the "Income Statement" (aka: Profit and Loss 
aka Statement of Revenues and Expenses)

Michael D Novack

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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 15:41:42 -0700
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
Cc: "Fross, Michael" <michael at fross.org>, Gnucash-User
    <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, Steve <butterandsalt at gmail.com>
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> On May 30, 2017, at 8:48 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> 
> "Fross, Michael" <michael at fross.org> writes:
> 
>> IIRC, the goal for that is at the end of the year.  Derek, if this is what you
>> mean by the C++ rewrite, then apologies for the repetition.
> 
> No, that's not correct.  The goal for the end of this year is the C++
> rewrite.  Turning GnuCash into a "true" database app is a longer-term
> project, more like ~3 years out.

That was the early, overly optimistic goal. It didn't happen. We've got C++ rewrites of part of libqof (most significantly date-time and numeric), the SQL backend, and the CSV importer. The task for the remainder of this year is to get that cleaned up and production ready.

I think we can get to "true database" in the next development cycle if we focus on it.

Regards,
John Ralls

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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 15:46:19 -0700
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
To: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>
Cc: Andy Pastuszak <apastuszak at gmail.com>, Gnucash-User
    <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, Steve <butterandsalt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GnuCash mobile
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> On May 30, 2017, at 8:59 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> Andy,
> 
> I believe that Geert is looking into GTK3 (not Gnome3) support, but I
> don't know the current status or if its expected to be completed in time
> for 2.8.
> 

We got pushed to Gtk3 by RedHat withdrawing WebKit1 from Fedora 26; WebKit2 is available only on Gtk3. Geert's done the work, it's in the Gtk3 branch on his Github repo. The blocker at the moment is getting a Gtk3 Windows build, which is what I'm working on right now--though WebKit2 isn't supported on Windows so we have to use WebKit1 with Gtk3 there. We won't start the 2.7 beta cycle until Gtk3 is merged, and we won't merge Gtk3 until the Windows build works.

Regards,
John Ralls

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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 18:59:55 -0400
From: Andy Pastuszak <apastuszak at gmail.com>
To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
Cc: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>, Gnucash-User
    <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>,  Steve <butterandsalt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GnuCash mobile
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Are there any UI changes with switching to GTK3?

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:46 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On May 30, 2017, at 8:59 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> >
> > Andy,
> >
> > I believe that Geert is looking into GTK3 (not Gnome3) support, but I
> > don't know the current status or if its expected to be completed in time
> > for 2.8.
> >
>
> We got pushed to Gtk3 by RedHat withdrawing WebKit1 from Fedora 26;
> WebKit2 is available only on Gtk3. Geert's done the work, it's in the Gtk3
> branch on his Github repo. The blocker at the moment is getting a Gtk3
> Windows build, which is what I'm working on right now--though WebKit2 isn't
> supported on Windows so we have to use WebKit1 with Gtk3 there. We won't
> start the 2.7 beta cycle until Gtk3 is merged, and we won't merge Gtk3
> until the Windows build works.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>

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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 16:45:04 -0700
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
To: Andy Pastuszak <apastuszak at gmail.com>
Cc: Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>, Gnucash-User
    <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, Steve <butterandsalt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GnuCash mobile
Message-ID: <E3CD4C4F-9AA8-4974-8F6F-3D16402755F6 at ceridwen.us>
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> On May 30, 2017, at 3:59 PM, Andy Pastuszak <apastuszak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Are there any UI changes with switching to GTK3?
> 

I don't know offhand, but I'd guess there will be some minor ones. Theming will be completely different, obviously.

Regards,
John Ralls

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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 09:20:36 +0200
From: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: Andy Pastuszak <apastuszak at gmail.com>, John Ralls
    <jralls at ceridwen.us>, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com>, Steve
    <butterandsalt at gmail.com>
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On woensdag 31 mei 2017 00:59:55 CEST Andy Pastuszak wrote:
> Are there any UI changes with switching to GTK3?
> 

As John said already mentioned the theming in Gtk3 is completely different 
from Gtk2. So Gnucash will look differently in some ways.

I didn't deliberately make gui changes. Where necessary I did replace Gtk2 
function calls that no longer exist with Gtk3 equivalents.

Regards,

Geert

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