# Showing cash and accrual together on any report

> A third option on the Accounting basis dropdown runs the report both ways and puts the difference beside them.

Section: Cash and accrual basis · Canonical: https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/basis-both-columns

Every report with an **Accounting basis** control offers three choices: Accrual, Cash, and **Cash + Accrual**.

Choosing the third runs the report twice and pairs it into three columns — Accrual, Cash, and the Difference between them.

**It is not a third basis.** It is the same report, run both ways. That matters: the Accrual column is identical to what the report shows on its own, so nothing can drift between the comparison and the single-basis view.

**Where the difference comes from** is almost entirely timing — revenue earned but not collected, and expenses incurred but not paid. The two headline statements also carry a written reconciliation; see [Comparing cash and accrual side by side](https://intubu.intuitivecapital-dai.com/docs/basis-comparison-report).

**On a report that ignores basis** — an aging, say, which is a list of what is owed rather than a measure of profit — the option falls back to accrual rather than printing two identical columns and a column of zeros, which would read as a finding rather than as nothing at all.

The comparison exports like any other report, in every format.