Cash Flow statement would be done with the bank and cash accounts setup.
It will receive all the cash receipts minus the cash payments for each account. The balance would be you positive or negative cash flow. This is not sales on credit or purchases on credit. These will only reflect when you receive payment on those sales or when you pay your supplier.
Depending how you have setup your accounts, will determine how one would write the report.
Let's for example say that you have two bank accounts set up. Bank Account A (Current Account) and Bank Account B (Cash Account).
Need to add all the receipts in Account A for a given period together and then subtract the expenses that was paid from that account.
Then you need to do the same for Account B.
Each account will then have an opening and closing balance and the difference would be you negative or positive cash flow.
To that one need to decide how many periods should be included in this cash flow report. 1,2,3,4,5,6 periods and the total for those periods. Say from 01/01/20xx to 31/01/20xx would be one period.
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Example:
CASH Flow
As at 01-Mar-2011
Account
October 10 - November 10 December 10 January 11 February 11 March 11 Total
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Net Cash Flow
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total Bank Balance
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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