To Chris Gifford, you mentioned including a chart, apparently titled "MS
Money Cash Flow Forecast", but that was not attached; could you please try
posting that again?
You want to "graph future cash flow based on scheduled transactions for any
date range" similarly to how MS Money does it.
Could you please clarify whether you mean cash flow as usually defined in
accounting, as in the Statement of Cash Flows, for which there exists a
"direct method" and an "indirect method" of reporting. The latter would
feature a reconciliation from income to actual change of cash for a period,
and would present "Operating" vs. "Investing" vs. "Financing" aspects, as
in the following hypothetical for a firm which reports positive income but
has negative cash flow:
Operating cash flows
Income 50,000
add back depreciation 10,000
increase in accts receivable (20,000)
decrease in accts payable (40,000)
increase in inventory (15,000)
Investing cash flows
PPE investment (new building) (100,000)
sale of equipment 5,000
Financing cash flows
Dividends (10,000)
Change in cash: (120,000)
If you are looking for anything like that traditional-type cash flow
reporting, then the
short answer is GnuCash does not support that. It does not provide that
report for past
periods, much less for future ones based on scheduled transactions.
Perhaps you could be the programmer to take on development of that
reporting? It would require GnuCash
to allow identifications, for each item in the chart of accounts,
categories required for
generating a Statement of Cash Flows. e.g. which cash-type accounts are to
be categorized "Cash",
e.g. which accounts should be categorized "Accounts Receivable", "Other
changes in short term assets",
etc.
With GnuCash to date, there is a reporting capability to show narrow,
direct changes during a period
in any given account which, when applied to a cash account, has sometimes
been referred to as reporting on cash
changes. (But that is essentially unrelated to cash flows as in
accounting, i.e. it could not possibly identify the purchase of
inventory on credit say, as causing both a use of cash by increase of
inventory and a source of cash
by increase of current liability).
It looks to me (e.g. at
https://msmoney.com/step-one-assessing-financial-health/determining-your-cash-flow/
) that MS Money, does not handle traditional cash flow reporting. Although
it is a sensible kind of reporting to have for individual, personal
finances accounting, as well as for firms.
I am guessing your interest might be more about budgeting (for a future
period, informed by already scheduled transactions, and hopefully
informed by past expenses and revenues) in categories that are types of
expenses such as rent, food, utilities etc. Your report
which I cannot see might clarify that.
Donald Cram
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:03 PM Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> The the Balance Forecast report in the Asset menu.
>
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 17:49, Chris Gifford <chri...@gifnet.us> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am relatively new to Linux computing and new to GNU Cash and
> > considering to move from Microsoft Money. However, Microsoft Money has
> > the capability to graph future cash flow based on scheduled transactions
> > for any date range. It also has the capability of changing one scheduled
> > transaction in the future. The only app that even comes close to this
> > capability is Quicken, however it only allows you to change the next
> > transaction. And it has a lot of flaws that MS Money does not.
> >
> > I am hoping there is a way to add this type of capability to GNU Cash,
> > however, I don't even see any charts in the default set of reports,
> > only HTML based text reports. I understand GNU Cash is open source and
> > I am programmer but before I even start a project of this magnitude, I
> > was wondering if anyone has tried creating charts such as the one below
> > and if so what the process is.
> >
> > Thank you for any input provided.
> >
> >
> > MS Money Cash Flow Forecast
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