Allow cash flow reports to include account transfers from select brokerage and other accounts

RobR56

My wife and I are retired. Our monthly income includes Social Security payments, Pension payments, and transfers from one (1) or more savings, brokerage, and retirement accounts. The Cash Flow Report does not recognize the inclusion of fund transfers into operating accounts, like checking accounts, from non-operating accounts like brokerage or retirement accounts. Please add this capability for the millions of retired Quicken users. Rob

jacobs

@RobR56 It is possible to show transfers in reports; it just takes a little finagling.

By default, the Cash Flow report is set to show All Accounts *except separate accounts):

And the Advanced tab is set to "Include selected transfers with accounts outside of report":

What that means is that and transfer to or from an account which is not included in the report will show up in the report. Since by default all accounts are included, you're not seeing any transfers. So you need to go to the Accounts tab, click Selected Accounts, and then uncheck any accounts where you have transfers you'd want to see. So if you have a brokerage account with transfers into your checking account which you want included in your Cash Flow report, you'd uncheck the brokerage account in the Accounts tab, and then the report will show all transfers to or from the brokerage account.

He's an example in my test file. With the default setting for the Cash Flow report, my cash inflows show three categories:

When I then go to Edit > Accounts and uncheck my brokerage account, the report gains a line for transfers from the brokerage account:

Here's another way to think about it: in a Cash Flow report which includes all accounts, there is flow out of the brokerage account and into the checking account which offset each other. In order to see that flow, you need to remove the flows to/from the brokerage account from being included, so that only the flow into the checking account is included and displayed .

So the functionality you were asking for already exists; you just have to understand the slightly-convoluted way to make it show up!