Bank account cash flow
Cash flow answers one question: what is going to be in this bank account, and when.
It starts from the last balance the bank told you, and lays the money you know about on top of it — day by day, in and out.
Where to find it
Open the bank account, then Cash Flow under Cash. It sits beside Statements and Reconciliation, because all three are about this one account at this one bank.
Cash flow is per account, not per legal entity. Two accounts have two cash positions even when one entity holds both, and money in one does not pay a shortfall in the other. If you need the picture across several accounts, read them one at a time.
What you see
| Part | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| The anchor | The balance the bank last confirmed, and the day it confirmed it |
| The timeline | Every expected movement after that day, with a running balance |
The anchor is the honest starting point. If no statement has been imported for this account yet, the anchor says so rather than guessing — a projection from an unconfirmed balance would be a guess with a number on it.
Each line on the timeline names where it came from, so you can tell a collection you are expecting from a payment you have committed to make.
What it does not include
Only movements the system knows about. A payment nobody has captured is not on it, and neither is anything an operator has planned but not recorded.
Read it as what is already committed, not as a forecast of everything that might happen.
Counterparty bank accounts
A customer’s own bank account has no cash flow view. You hold no position in it and receive no statement for it, so there is nothing to anchor a projection to.
What your organisation configures
- Which bank accounts each legal entity holds.
- Whether bank statements are imported at all — cash flow is part of the same capability, since the anchor comes from a statement.