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Read your Cash Flow statement
The Cash Flow statement answers the question the P&L can't: you made a profit, so where did the money go?
- Go to Ledger › Reports, pick Statements on the group row, then open the Cash Flow tab beneath it.
- Set the date range with the period picker.
- Read down the three sections:
- Operating Activities starts from net income and adjusts for money that moved on paper but not in cash: a growing Accounts Receivable means you earned income you haven't been paid yet, so it is subtracted; a growing Accounts Payable or credit-card balance means you incurred costs you haven't paid, so it is added back.
- Investing Activities shows what you spent on, or got back from, long-term assets: buying equipment or a vehicle, selling one. Depreciation is not here. It never moved any cash, so it is added back in Operating instead.
- Financing Activities shows money in and out from the owners and from borrowing: owner contributions and draws, a shareholder loan advanced or repaid, and what you drew on or paid back to a line of credit. A line of credit shows here under its own name, because it is money you borrowed from the bank. A credit card stays in Operating as part of the credit-card balance, because it is a bill you have not paid yet.
- The bottom cards should tie out: Opening Cash plus Net Change in Cash equals Closing Cash, which matches the cash on your Balance Sheet as of the period end.
If your books hold a journal entry whose debits and credits do not balance, the three sections cannot add up to the cash that actually moved. TALISK_HQ does not hide that. It shows an Unexplained difference above the bottom cards saying how much the activities account for and how much cash really moved, and the note under the cards changes to say the activities do not fully account for the movement. The statement is still produced, with every figure on it, because the difference is the thing your accountant would go looking for anyway. Check Books health in Ledger, or ask your accountant to look, then reload the statement. On healthy books the notice never appears.
Use CSV to download it. The statement is built by the indirect method from your posted journal entries, the same construction an accountant prepares, so there is no Cash / Accrual toggle here: the whole point of the report is to reconcile accrual profit to cash movement.