FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND CASH FLOW 1. Liquidity measures how quickly and easily an asset can be converted to cash without significant loss in value. It’s desirable for firms to have high liquidity so that they have a large factor of safety in meeting short-term creditor demands. However‚ since liquidity also has an opportunity cost associated with it - namely that higher returns can generally be found by investing the cash into productive assets - low liquidity levels are also desirable to the
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2012/2013 (A121) CHAPTER 2-FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND CASH FLOWS Section A Please circle TRUE or FALSE to the following statements. 1) An income statement reports a firm’s cumulative revenues and expenses from the inception of the firm through the income statement date. Answer: FALSE 2) A firm’s income statement reports the results from operating the business for a period of time‚ while the firm’s balance sheet provides a snapshot of the firm’s financial position at a specific point
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Free cash flow In corporate finance‚ free cash flow (FCF) is cash flow available for distribution among all the securities holders of an organization. They include equity holders‚ debt holders‚ preferred stock holders‚ convertible security holders‚ and so on. G. Bennett Stewart - the "economic model of value holds that share prices are determined by just two things: the cash to be generated over the lifetime of a business and the risk of the cash receipts”. GSB (1990)‚ “The Quest for Value”
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security guard firm in the late 1980s Provide executive summary & detailed analysis of value of acquisition Email your group’s bid to GSI before 6 p.m. evening before discussion Be prepared to discuss the case in class (your answers‚ your analysis‚ etc.) 1 Valuation - Use NPV approach How to make investment decisions: 1. Estimate (expected) cash flows in each time period 2. Choose an appropriate discount rate 3. Use discounted cash flow analysis to calculate NPV 4. Make decision
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CONSTRUCTION OF FREE CASH FLOWS A PEDAGOGICAL NOTE. PART I Ignacio Vélez-Pareja ivelez@javeriana.edu.co Department of Management Universidad Javeriana Bogotá‚ Colombia Working Paper N 5 First version: 5-Nov-99 This version: January 2001 This paper can be downloaded from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=196588 CONSTRUCTION OF FREE CASH FLOWS
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Introduction In financial accounting‚ a cash flow statement‚ also known as statement of cash flows or funds flow statement is a financial statement that shows how changes in balance sheet accounts and income affect cash and cash equivalents‚ and breaks the analysis down to operating‚ investing‚ and financing activities. The primary purpose of a statement of cash flows is to provide relevant information about the cash receipts and cash payments of an enterprise during a period. Essentially‚ the cash flow statement
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Statement of Cash Flows What is the purpose of the statement of cash flows? What information does it provide? Explain why statements of cash flows are important when assessing the financial strength of an organization. The following paper will discuss the purpose of the statements of cash flows and will analyze the importance of the information when assessing an organization’s financial strength. An organization needs to rely in different approaches to analyze performance and data to manage the
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Statement of Cash Flow Claudette Elliott‚ Lavern George‚ Tristan Hampton‚ Meagan Jones‚ dawn Prichard ACC/421 December 5‚ 2012 Paul Andoh Statement of Cash Flow The importance of cash the cash flow statement help businesses and creditors understand how liquid a company is. Team A discussed some important factors about the statement of cash flow. The purpose of the statement of cash flow and how it is used in accounting is explained. The direct and indirect method of preparing a statement
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Statement of Cash Flows Larry D. Abernathy ACC 421/Intermediate Financial Accounting I Richard Burden Statement of Cash Flows The facts contained in the balance sheet and the profit and loss statement is connected by the bridge that is the statement of cash flows. By recording the flow of cash and cash equivalents into and out of the company the statement of cash flow is a good indicator of a company’s health. Thus‚ the purpose of the statement of cash flow
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activities of firms are buying raw materials‚ paying cash‚ manufacturing the product‚ selling the product and collecting cash. During the payment‚ the cash need occurs. Cash need should be covered by going into a debt. Cash budget is a primary tool in short-term financial planning. It is prepared after the operating budgets (sales‚ manufacturing expenses or merchandise purchases‚ selling expenses‚ and general and administrative expenses) and the capital expenditures budget are prepared. The cash budget
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