BudgetInMind
User Manual

The Budget View displays all the elements necessary to manage the Income Statement and the CashFlow. The top part consist of the Income and Expenses monthly balances. As described in Budget View, you can display the actuals, forecast and delta (actual-forecast).

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The result is calculated by adding all income and substracting all expenses. As explained in The 3 Major Statements, the financial result is not sufficient to understand variations in bank accounts. We must correct the result by substracting asset variations and adding liabilities variation for that month to get the Cash Flow.

The Cash Flow must be equal to the Bank accounts variation. The Helper line shows the difference between the Cash Flow line and the Financial:Bank line to help you ventilate the cash flow in the various bank variations.

Budget Views show monthly variation

Remember that the Budget View shows the monthly variation of each account. This means that it displays Asset variations, Liabilities variations and Bank accounts variations. The balances are visible in the Balance Sheet View.

Seeing account balances in the budget

If you wish, you can also see the Balance Sheet accounts in the Budget to have the full picture in one view. It is interesting for forecasting, but otherwise can make the view overwhelming.

View Balance Sheet accounts in the Budget

  1. Open the Preference Window (Command-,) and click on the Advanced Tab.

  2. Enable or Disable the Hide account balances in budget.

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