![]() The Cash Flow Forecast allows you to create and save different scenarios, which is probably pretty useful IF you have a few hours to kill. I did it, but only because I’m a money dork. I can’t imagine that any large chunk of Quicken users would be willing to plow through their incomes and expenses, category by category, Scheduled Transaction by Scheduled Transaction, just to get this thing running at a somewhat realistic clip. Those initial figures were a disaster, and way out of whack. Now, I’m all for conservative planning, but come on. Many “expense items” appeared three and four times. ![]() Initially, Quicken’s “brain” had taken my next year’s worth of Scheduled Transactions, combined it with my average monthly categorized income and expenses, and applied all of that to my household financial cash flow in a manner that I can only describe as MADDENINGLY RANDOM. However, it took me a patience-testing hour or so to get Quicken’s Cash Flow Forecast set up in a way that’d reflect anything close to reality. The graph is all fine and dandy, I suppose. So you know they’re, uh, reliable.) Forecasting: It’s a Lot of Work (Displayed figures above have been certified by the Congressional Budget Office. That awfully smooth, upward-sloping line is meant to show me how my bank-account balances will steadily increase over the next year IF my monthly “Income Items” and “Expense Items” meet the parameters I’ve set up. When I select that, Quicken displays a graph like this: You can get to the Cash Flow Forecast via the menubar: Quicken can forecast your spending patterns for up to two years, and displays your account balances in a graph. A cash flow forecast lets you project your cash flow for the future, based on scheduled bills and deposits and estimated amounts. ![]() For long term forecasting use Quicken’s Cash Flow Forecast feature. ![]()
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