Yes Balance sheet is always as on date and P&L being transactional report
will always be between two dates (reporting period)
However, cash flow statement is unique in a sense that it is both!
Cash inflow and Cash out flow are derived from transactions between two
dates. But then the Cash balance at the end of the transaction period
chosen is as on date!
The cash flow statements help us understand net cash flow during the
period and and how much on hand at the end of the period, which can be
then compared with actual cash /back balance statements.
So I agree with the suggestion to have opening and closing balance
included in cash flow statements to achieve complete picture as below;
Opening balance at the beginning of the period plus Total cash Inflow
during the period minus Total Cash outflow during the Period equals Cash
at hand at the end of the period.
Paras
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:30:46 -0400
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Subject: [GNC] Report showing Opening & Closing Balances &
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I set the date range in Preferences.
Cash Flow shows "Money In" and "Money Out". It would be helpful to
show
Opening & Closing Balance for the selected date range.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Ross
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:40:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: "David G. Pickett" <[email protected]>
To: Gnucash Users <[email protected]>
Subject: [GNC] Yahoo JSON Quotes now random bad
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Today we moved to a random minority of failing symbols, not consistent
each pass.? 4 passes and I got all my symbols!
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:17:54 -0400
From: Michael or Penny Novack <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GNC] Report showing Opening & Closing Balances &
transactions
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On 6/17/2025 4:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I set the date range in Preferences.
Cash Flow shows "Money In" and "Money Out". It would be helpful to
show
Opening & Closing Balance for the selected date range.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Help? (it is unclear what your question might be)
Some reports are always "as of some date" (example; Balance Sheet) and
others are always for some date range, start date and end date
(example;
Income Statement).
I would always be wanting the report to show date or rang and so set in
report options for THAT running of the report. Using dates set at some
other level allows for the error "report not actually run for the
date/dates you thought it was run for. Accounting is not "real time"
but
"effective time/date".
Note that "cash flow" is showing a different view of activity during a
period than "profit and loss". You can be OK in terms of one of these
but in trouble in terms of the other.
Michael D Novack
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