What Is a Cash Flow Statement? (with Example)
A plain-English guide to what a cash flow statement is — its three sections, how it differs from the P&L and balance sheet, and a simple worked example.
Turn a transactions CSV into a monthly money-in, money-out, and net summary, free and in your browser. Pick your date and amount columns and download the result.
Upload a transactions CSV and get a clean monthly cash-flow summary: total money in, total money out, and the net change for each month. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Each transaction's date is read into a month (YYYY-MM) and amounts are summed in exact integer
minor units, so the totals never drift from floating-point rounding.
This is a simple summary — money in, money out, and net per month. It is not a formal cash flow statement under IAS 7 or GAAP. It does not classify transactions into operating, investing, and financing activities, and it should not be used as an official statement for filing or audit. For an explanation of the formal three-section format, read what is a cash flow statement.
Rows whose date can't be read — or is ambiguous, like 03/04/2026 where day versus month
can't be told from the value alone — are excluded from the totals and counted so you can see
exactly how many were left out. Clean those dates and re-upload if you need them included.
Use the summary to see how money in and money out compared month to month, spot months where outflows ran ahead of inflows, or prepare a quick figure before a more detailed review. For a walkthrough of building a statement from raw transactions, see cash flow statement from bank transactions.
A plain-English guide to what a cash flow statement is — its three sections, how it differs from the P&L and balance sheet, and a simple worked example.
A step-by-step workflow to build a cash flow statement from bank transactions — export, categorize into operating, investing, and financing activities.