Direct and Indirect Cash Flows Christine Grae XACC/291 Principles of Accounting II March 29‚ 2015 Susan Schulz When companies utilize the accrual method of accounting‚ they will prepare a cash flow statement in order to understand the flow of cash. We call this method the cash flow statement and it can be prepared in two different methods which would be indirect and direct. The methods are different but they both will be conducted with the same results for the accounting period. The direct
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CASH FLOW STATEMENT and its ANALYSIS Cash flow statement • A cash flow statement presents information about the cash flows associated with the company’s main operations and those associated with its investing and financing activities of the period • A cash flow statement functions in conjunction with both the income statement (performance dimension) and the balance sheet (financial position) • IAS 7 Cash Flow Statements Statement of Cash Flows • Provides information about cash inflows and outflows
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THE ELEMENTS OF A CASH FLOW PROJECTION A capital budgeting decision is characterized by costs and benefits (cash flows) that are spread out over several time periods. This leads to a requirement that the time value of money be considered in order to evaluate the alternatives correctly. Although in actual practice we must consider risk as well as time value‚ to situations in which the costs and benefits (in terms of cash) are known with certainty. There are sufficient difficulties in just taking
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Difference Between Cash Flow and Funds Flow Statement Many people think that both cash and fund are same‚ however they both are different and so is the case with cash flow statement and funds flow statement. Let’s look at some of the differences between cash flow and funds flow statement – 1. While funds flow statement reveals the change in the working capital of a company between two balance sheet dates while cash flow statement reveals the change in the cash position of the company between two
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Analysis of Cash Flows Statements By Song Hanxiao Pace University – New York Campus MBA 640‚ 72052 Fall 2011 John Paul Required Research Paper Contents Abstract --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 | I. Introduction of importance of Cash Flows statements -------------------------------------4 | II. Function of Cash Flow Statements -----------------------------------------------------------5
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Statement of Cash Flows Chapter 8 Measuring & reporting cash flows pages 448-472 448 472 pages 484-489 1 1 Learning objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. Explain why cash is important to the reporting entity Define cash and cash equivalents Distinguish between accrual- and cash-based transaction recognition Compare and contrast the roles of the four external financial reports (statement of financial performance‚ statement of financial position‚ statement of changes in equity and statement of cash flows) Discuss
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preparing a statement of cash flows‚ the term cash is broadly defined to include both cash and cash equivalents. Cash comprises cash on hand and demand deposit with banks. Cash equivalents consist of short term‚ highly liquid investments such as treasury bills‚ commercial paper‚ and money market funds. Such investments are made solely for the purpose of generating a return on funds that are temporary idle. Instead of simply holding cash‚ most companies invest their excess cash reserves in these types
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Dell Cash flow analysis Cash flow statement show how money is moving into company and out of it. In addition to this‚ if we want to determine Dell company solvency‚ we have to take a look in cash inflows and outflows. So in order to analise Dell‚ I have done calcualtions of these ratios: Cash Ratio=(Cash&Equivalents+ Short term investment)/Current Liabilities | 2007 | 10298/17791= 0‚579 | 2008 | 7972/18529 = 0‚43 | 2009 | 9092/14859 = 0‚612 | 2010 | 11008/18960 = 0‚58 | 1.Liquidity
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Statement of Cash Flows Solutions to Questions 14-1 The statement of cash flows highlights the major activities that impact cash flows and hence affect the overall cash balance. 14-2 Cash equivalents are short-term‚ highly liquid investments such as Treasury bills‚ commercial paper‚ and money market funds. They are included with cash because investments of this type are made solely for the purpose of generating a return on temporarily idle funds and they can be easily converted to cash. 14-3 (1)
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Chapter 12 Statement of Cash Flows True / False Questions 1. Interest and dividends from investments held by a company are reported as cash inflows from investing activities on the statement of cash flows. True False 2. Under the indirect method‚ changes in current assets are used in determining cash flows from operating activities and changes in current liabilities are used in determining cash flows from financing activities. True False 3. Using the indirect method‚ the increase
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