Cash Outflows are the money that leaves the business without showing up as a cost on your income statement: owner draws, loan principal, capital buys, and the tax you remit. Logging them is what lets the Cash Bridge explain why a profitable month still left the account tight.

1. Log an outflow

Open Books → Cash Outflows. Add each one by type, an owner draw, a loan payment, a capital purchase, or a tax remittance, with its amount and date. These are cash uses, not expenses, so they belong here and not in Operating Expenses.

2. Set the recurring ones

A regular draw or a fixed loan payment can be marked recurring, and Bar Cop carries it forward every month until you stop it, so you are not re-entering the same payment.

3. Read it back in the Cash Bridge

The Cash Bridge in Cash Recovery reads these back and shows them as the gap between your profit and the cash you actually kept. If your account runs tighter than your profit says it should, this is where the money went.

Operating bills like rent and utilities are not outflows; those live in Operating Expenses. Outflows are the below-the-line cash uses only.