<title>Learn about changing how Money forecasts cash flow</title>
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<klink type="cncpt">Tell me about changing how Money forecasts cash flow</klink>
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<p>Money tries to forecast your income and expenses as realistically as possible based on the information in your accounts. You have several choices, however, about which items are included in your cash flow and how they are calculated. </p>
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<li>You can choose whether unscheduled expenses, such as groceries, are forecasted to occur late in each forecasted period, after income potentially occurs, early in each period, or averaged throughout each period.</li>
<li>You can choose which types of items you want included in your cash flow.</li>
<li>If your account is interest-bearing, you can have Money factor the interest income into your cash flow.</li>
<li>You can tell Money how to decide which account a budgeted item should be associated with, or if you want to assign budgeted items to accounts yourself.</li>
