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Use Cash Flow and Changes in Equity reports

Review how operating, investing and financing activity changes cash and how profits, contributions and distributions change equity.

Audience: Finance managersFeature: Cash flow and equityModule v1.4.5
Feature pathAccounting → Reports → Statement of Cash Flows / Statement of Changes in Equity
Before you beginThis guide follows Accounting and Bookkeeping module version 1.4.5. The required access is Accounting Reports: View. A related screen can remain hidden when an optional module is inactive, a source record is in an ineligible status, the selected account is inactive or the user is not an assigned approver.

What this feature does

Review how operating, investing and financing activity changes cash and how profits, contributions and distributions change equity. It forms part of Britixo Enterprise CRM's Accounting & Bookkeeping module and uses the module's permission-aware controller, status and mapping flow rather than a generic spreadsheet process.

How the module flow works

The module exposes separate Statement of Cash Flows and Statement of Changes in Equity reports. Their quality depends on correct account types and transaction classifications.

Internal transfers move cash between owned accounts but do not change total cash and should not be mistaken for operating inflow or outflow.

Equity movement can include current-period profit plus direct equity postings.

Step-by-step workflow

  1. Run the Statement of Cash Flows for the period.
  2. Compare opening and closing cash with bank and cash accounts.
  3. Investigate classifications using General Ledger.
  4. Run Statement of Changes in Equity.
  5. Compare profit movement with Profit & Loss.
  6. Review capital, drawings, dividends or adjustments.
  7. Retain explanations for material movements.

Important fields and decisions

Operating activitiesCash effects of core trading activity.
Investing activitiesAsset and investment cash movements.
Financing activitiesBorrowing, repayments, capital and distributions.
Opening and closing cashShould connect to reconciled bank and cash accounts.
Equity movementExplains retained earnings and other equity changes.
PeriodUse complete and reconciled dates.

What happens after completion

After the action is saved, Britixo keeps the Accounting record connected to its source and updates the visible status or ledger data supported by this workflow. Review the saved result rather than relying only on a success message. Where the action posts accounting data, total debits and credits must balance and the accounts must match the approved mapping or manual selection.

  • Open the saved record and confirm its final status.
  • Review the source reference and every debit and credit line where ledger data was created.
  • Use the relevant register, ageing, reconciliation or report to verify the wider effect.

Controls, checks and common mistakes

  • Reconcile cash before using cash-flow results.
  • Review asset purchases and loan movements.
  • Do not classify bank transfers as external cash flow.
  • Investigate manual equity journals.
  • Use the least destructive correction available and record the reason for material changes.
  • Do not bypass a permission, approval or closed-period control by changing unrelated data.
Accounting and data safetyDeletion, reset, void, refund, mapping, journal and reconciliation actions can change financial history. Use approved access, retain supporting evidence and validate the result in the General Ledger or relevant control report.
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