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The Cash Flow Manager tool has three tabs: Starting Cash, Expected Incoming Cash, and Expected Outgoing Cash.
Starting Cash is the total amount in all of your cash accounts at the time you open the Cash Flow Manager.
All of your cash accounts will appear here. Cash accounts are defined by the Account Type selected for an account in Maintain Chart of Accounts. By default, they will all be checked.
Note: Accounts marked as Inactive may not appear, depending on the selections made on the Change Cash Flow Settings window.
The starting balance for each cash account reflects the balance of the cash account as of the time you opened the Cash Flow Manager. Note that this is not necessarily the balance of your bank accounts. That will depend on the lag time between when you entered a payment or receipt and the time it takes to clear the bank.
Expected Incoming Cash is money you expect to be coming into your business in the form of checks, credit card payments, cash, and so on.
This will depend on whether or not you have saved the information in the past. If this is the first time you opened the Cash Flow Manager, Sage 50 will display the following types of transactions by default:
You can modify the data on this tab in three ways:
Expected Outgoing Cash is money that you expect will go out of your business in cash, checks, credit card payments, and so on.
When you first open the Cash Flow Manager, the following types of transactions will appear.
You can modify the data on this tab in three ways: