How to deal with the cash flow and the credit card.

Christopher Lam christopher.lck at gmail.com
Mon Sep 25 12:17:15 EDT 2017


I think the easiest way is to schedule both repayments as you expect to pay
the credit cards in the future (23 and 30 of the month).
Then on the main Accounts window, enable the column labelled "Future
Minimum" which will warn you how close to the red line you will be :)
(Click on the down arrow on the rightmost edge of column headings)

On 25 September 2017 at 23:35, Explorare H. David <explorare at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for your replies. And here is what I'm considering.
>
> The repayment date for one of my credit cards is 23rd, and 30th for
> another. If I want to buy something in cash between these 2 dates, I
> need to know exactly how much money I could spend on that day. I have to
> repay one of the credit card on 23rd, but the liability value for that
> account is actually includes some bills I don't need to repay in this
> cycle.
>
> So here comes the question: how do I know how much money I need to pay
> for the credit account and how much "money" I still have on my debit
> account if I repay the credit on time.
>
> And how do you guys estimate your usable money for the coming months?
> For example how much "cash" I still have and how much "money" I could
> use include all credit accounts.
>
>
> On 9/25/2017 04:05, Aaron Laws wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Explorare <explorare at outlook.com
> > <mailto:explorare at outlook.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Just a stupid question:
> >
> >     I have three credit cards which have different bill date. So how
> >     to know the
> >     amount of cash I have on a specific date? Is there a tool to
> >     calculate this?
> >     I didn't find a place to set the bill date and the repayment date.
> >
> >     Sorry for my poor English :P
> >
> >
> > Are you wanting to know your current assets minus your current
> > liabilities to know how much "money" you have on hand? For this,
> > you'll take your chequing account balance and subtract all your credit
> > card balances, right? I use the "Net Worth Line Chart" for this
> > purpose, and only select the current assets and liabilities (chequing,
> > cash, etc, and credit cards, etc.).
>
>
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