The dashboard, cash forecast, snapshot and quick answers

# The dashboard, cash forecast, snapshot and quick answers

Insights in the left menu has five tabs: Dashboard, Cash forecast, Budgets, Quick answers and Snapshot. Everything is worked out from your own books. Nothing leaves your computer.

Dashboard

The cards show the date they are as at. Click a card to open the report behind it.

• Cash, money owed to you, and money you owe.
• Profit this month and this year, next to the current budget if you have one.
• Gross margin and net margin, current ratio and quick ratio, debtor days and creditor days.
• Top customers and top expenses this year, and a chart of income and spending by month. Choose Show as a table to read the same figures as a table.

How the figures are read:

• Cash is the bank, cash, checking, savings and petty cash accounts.
• Gross margin shows only if you have an expense account named cost of sales, cost of goods, cogs, purchases or materials. Otherwise it says n/a. It does not guess.
• Debtor days and creditor days compare what is owed with this year's income or spending, over the days gone this year.

Cash forecast

It looks ahead 30, 60 and 180 days and shows cash week by week.

• An open invoice is expected when that customer usually pays. If there is no history, the due date is used.
• An open bill is expected on its due date.
• Repeating invoices and bills count from their next date.
• Drafts and quotes are left out. Anything overdue is expected today.
• Money in a foreign currency is counted at the value already booked, not revalued.

Under What if, you can delay all receipts by a number of days, add a one-off amount, or choose Leave out on a line. Reset the what-if puts it back. The what-if changes only the forecast.

Quick answers

Pick one of seven fixed questions, such as "How much cash do I have?", "Who owes me the most?" or "Am I on budget?". You cannot type your own question. Each answer comes straight from your books, and Open the report shows where it came from.

Snapshot

One page with the key figures, the forecast and the budget. Use Download PDF or Print.

Good to know

• These screens only read your books.
• They have been tested by the engine's automatic tests. They have not yet been clicked through by a person in every app, or checked on a phone-sized screen.
• The same cards "Bills you owe" and "Profit this month" also appear on the Mac Home screen. They have not been seen running yet.