[GNC] Miscalculation in cashflow reports

[Adrien Monteleone]

> On Jul 30, 2019, at 10:57 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> The basic form is something like this:
> 
> ----------
> Cash & Cash Equivalents, beginning of period:
> 
> Cash Flow from Operations:
> Cash Flow from Financing:
> Cash Flow from Investing:
> 
> Net Increase in Cash & Cash Equivalents:
> 
> Cash & Cash Equivalents, end of period:
> ----------

For simplicity, the Beginning & End of Period lines might have to be left off and just report the Net Increase (Decrease) line.

This is because the Beginning of Period figure comes from the End Of Prior Period Balance Sheet. Since that will vary, and may not have even been run, there is no way to know what that would be. The only way around that would be to run the Balance Sheet code for a period *from the start of the book* to the day before the opening day of the CashFlow report, take that Cash figure, then run the rest of the code for the Cash Flow report, then add the Net change to that Cash amount to get the End of Period amount. (which is supposed to match the End of Period Balance Sheet cash amount as well)

!!

I’m copying -devel on this to move the discussion there.

Regards,
Adrien