Generating Cash Flow Statements from Consecutive Periods

Procedure

You can generate up to three cash flow statements at one time. The statements are displayed side-by-side for ease of comparison.

To generate a cash flow statement from a selected statement period and its previous statement period:

1. Select the customer. How?

2. Select the Financial Analysis tab.
   The Financials screen displays the list of financial statements entered for the customer.

3. Select the check boxes for up to three statement periods for which to generate cash flow statements. eCredit generates a cash flow statement from each selected period and its previous period.

Important:  There must be a statement entered for the previous period, or the data generated for the cash flow statement is not accurate.

4. Click Cash Flow.
   The Financial Cash Flow screen appears.

Note:  Cash flow values are not calculated if you have cleared the selection from Financial Completed. If the statement has both an income statement and balance sheet, to have eCredit calculate cash flow, select the Financial Completed check box for the statement.

From this screen, you can also

• Enter adjustments for operating activities, investment activities, and financing activities. How?

• Print the cash flow statements. How?

• Add comments for a cash flow statement How?

Notes:

If the statement was entered in a custom format, you can view the statement in the US Long format by clicking Global Cash Flow.

To convert the values to a different currency, select the currency in the Currency field and click Calculate.

To convert the values to a different currency unit, (for example, thousands of dollars instead of actual dollars), select the unit in the Unit field and click Calculate.

To convert the values using a different conversion date, select the date from the Conversion Date pop-up calendar, and click Calculate.