View graphs of financial data

• Tim Fouracre
• Thursday, 16 April 2009
• Reports Update

View a graphical representations of your accounting data. You can access this tool by going to “Reports > Graphs” and then selecting the accounting period and graph type you require.

Income & expenditure graph

This graph shows your income (revenue) and expenditure as two individual lines. The income is shown in black, and the expenditure is red.

Profit / loss graph

This graph shows you whether you made a profit or loss each month. The profit is the area above zero, and is filled in blue, the loss is any area below zero, which is filled with red.

Cash flow graph

This graph shows you your net daily change in your cash position across all cash accounts. If your cash has increased on a particular day, it’ll be shown in blue, if it’s decreased it’ll be red.

Cash balance graph

This graph shows your overall cash balance across all cash accounts. If it’s blue you have a positive cash balance, if it’s red that means you are overdrawn.

The graphs are powered by flot which is an open source jquery graphing library.