Vendor Cash Flow Report overview

The Vendor Cash Flow Report is designed for multiple purposes. It not only provides you with information about upcoming liabilities to your vendors, but it also provides a report of the expected receipts from your customers. If you have a negative net cash flow, this report indicates how your liabilities for the period outweigh your expected receipts. A positive net cash flow indicates that receipts from your customers will offset the payments you owe to your vendors. The net cash flow can be critical in determining the amount of cash you will need on hand at the end of a period. This is important if your liquid assets are currently depleted but you still have a large liability to look forward to as the end of the period approaches.

The Vendor Cash Flow Report is flexible enough to allow you to print only the liabilities forecast or only the customer cash flow. It is not necessary to print both segments at the same time. However, you must print both segments at the same time to calculate your net cash flow for the periods specified.

The Vendor Cash Flow Report may be printed as often as needed. For some, it is only necessary to print the report on a monthly basis to determine cash needs. However, for those with high volume and extensive Accounts Payable and/or Accounts Receivable activity, it might be necessary to print the report on a weekly or biweekly basis. The report can be printed for each division or all divisions, if your vendor or customer records are set up with division numbers. If you are using fully divisionalized accounting, you can use the division number range to limit the transactions that print for vendors or customers. The GL Daily Change Report can also be used on a daily basis to determine your net change in Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.

Your current, active invoices are used to determine the net cash flow. However, a total of the miscellaneous credits, unapplied cash, and disputed invoices, which is also provided, should be taken into consideration with the net cash flow to determine your true cash requirements.

The Vendor Cash Flow Report also provides foreign currency information including domestic conversion and rate used.