AFM123 Lecture 1: AFM+123+Statement+of+Cash+Flows

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: understand what caused cash to change during the year. Cash appears on the balance sheet as the first item in current assets. Readers of the financial statements want to know why. To understand a business, a f/s user must know what is happening to cash from each perspectives operating, investing and financing. Accountants must therefore prepare the cash flow statement that way. Accountants have devised 2 different ways of presenting the cash flow from operating activities. The indirect method highlights how well the company has been managing its working capital by presenting changes in the various working capital accounts. The direct method shows exactly how much cash came in from each individual operating activity. The indirect method is the more popular method, simply because in the united. So any canadian company that has to prepare u. s. f/s, must use the indirect method. Cash flow = cash for the year (c = cash) A = l + se.

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