Using the Cash Flow Manager

• You can use it to determine whether or not money will be available in the near future for additional expenses.
• It also allows you to enter adjustments and changes balances so you can forecast the flow of cash into and out of your business over a period of time. For example, you might be considering some large purchase and you want to see the effect that purchase would have on your cash flow over the next two weeks or month.

1. Open the Cash Flow Manager by selecting Analysis from the menubar, then Cash Flow Manager.
2. Select the Time frame that you want. The Time Frame you select determines how far in the future the cash flow projection will be, as well as how far out the graph will display data. It will default to Next 14 Days.
3. On the Starting Cash tab, select the Cash accounts that you want to include. This tab shows you all of your Cash accounts and their balances as of the time you start to use the Cash Flow Manager. These balances are system balances and do not necessarily display the exact bank account balance at that moment.
4. Enter any adjustments you want to make. This could include changes to bank balances and cash balances that are not reflected in Sage 50 yet.
5. Select the Expected Incoming Cash tab. This tab shows you expected incoming cash. This includes unpaid invoices that are not overdue, unapplied receipts from customers, and customer credit memos.
6. Select or clear the transactions that you want to include in your Cash Flow.

You can change which types of transactions appear here by clicking Change Cash Flow Settings. What are the default types of transactions that appear?

7. Select the Expected Outgoing Cash tab. Expected Outgoing Cash is money that you expect will go out of your business in cash, checks, credit card payments, and so on.
8. Check or uncheck the transactions that you want to include in your Cash Flow.

You can change which types of transactions appear here by clicking Change Cash Flow Settings. What are the default types of transactions that appear?

9. Select which bars you want to appear in the graph by checking or unchecking Balance, Incoming, and Outgoing.
10. You can print the Cash Flow or send it to Microsoft Excel.

You can modify the data on this tab in three ways:

• Change which items are checked or unchecked. Simply click the check box to change the setting.
• Select the Change Cash Flow Settings button to change which types of transactions appear on the tabs. Learn more about the cash flow settings.
• Click in the Expected Date or Amount fields to change the information. When you change the information in a cell on the grid, a small triangle will appear at the bottom right corner of the cell. When you roll the mouse over this triangle, you will see the original value.