Cash Flow
What is coming up, so a tight stretch is visible before you are in it.
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What Cash Flow Means Here
Rather than only showing what has already happened, this view brings together your bills and income sources so you can see what is coming over the days and weeks ahead. The idea is simple: know what is due and when, and spot a tight stretch before it arrives.
Not the same as the Cash Flow card
The Budget page’s Overview tab has a card with the same name, but it looks backwards at how the current week, month or year has been allocated. This article is about the forward-looking forecast. For the card, see Budget Overview.
The Upcoming Activity Widget
This is the main surface for cash flow at a glance. It shows a two-week day strip alongside a list of what is scheduled for the near future, pulling together:
- Your recurring bills with a due date in the coming days or weeks.
- Expected income from the sources you have set up.
- Real transactions from the recent window, for context.
Each entry shows its title, amount and date, so you can scan the list and spot anything you were not prepared for. There is a matching home-screen widget if you would rather see it without opening the app - see Home-Screen Widgets.
How Bills and Income Roll In
Bills with future due dates appear as outflows. Income sources appear as inflows on their next expected pay date. Both are driven entirely by what you have configured, so the quality of the projection depends directly on how complete and current those entries are.
When a bill or paycheque actually clears, Cadence reconciles the upcoming entry against the matching transaction so the feed stays in step with reality rather than showing both.
Fixing a Forecast That Looks Wrong
If the projection looks off, the fix is almost always in the underlying entries rather than in the forecast itself. In order of how often it is the cause:
- A missing bill or income source. Anything you have not entered cannot be projected.
- A stale amount. A rent increase or a raise that has not been reflected yet.
- The wrong frequency. Biweekly and bimonthly differ by two pay periods a year - see Tracking Income.
- A next due date left in the past. A source that was never marked received stops advancing.
Update the entry and the forecast recalculates. See Bills for editing scheduled outflows.
Tip
A five-minute review of your bills and income every few weeks is what keeps this useful. Recurring detection will catch new subscriptions for you - see Recurring Detection.