Forecast
Week-by-week or month-by-month cash flow, with real spending beside it, editable cells, and Apply from here.
Where to find it
Sidebar: Forecast. The page title is Cashflow forecast. On a phone it is under More, and More pins it near the top.
The forecast is the budget, stretched out, with up to 12 months of real spending in the columns behind today.
- Open Forecast. Weekly is the usual view. Monthly is the other segment. Reset puts back Weekly, 12 months ahead, and 12 months of actuals.
- Read down the rows and across the dates. Each block shows an opening balance and, further down, the closing balance. Past columns are marked Actual. The current one is marked now.
- The Budget column shows the plan and the 3-month and 12-month averages. You can hide that column and show it again.
- Drill Spend type, then Category, then Merchant, from a month.
- Edit a forecast cell by typing a number. Apply from here → carries that figure forward. Revert to plan, and Revert to plan from here, put the budget figures back.
Loans follow their repayment schedules, including planned drawdowns when you have entered them on a debt and Build & renovate is on. The opening balance can be adjusted from the opening row if the accounts in it are wrong. Leave it blank to use the accounts themselves.
What this does not do
A forecast cell is a plan. Apply from here does not move money and does not pay a bill. It is not a 30-year projection.
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Jarful is a budgeting tool, not a financial adviser. Nothing on this page is financial advice.