ACCT1021 Lecture 25: Chapter Thirteen Lecture Notes (25&26)

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Introduction : the cash flow statement is designed to provide information about the nature and sources of an entity"s cash inflows and outflows. This information is important because the balance sheet and income statement, by themselves, will not provide sufficient information on how a company obtained and spent its cash. The balance sheet will inform the investor as to what a company"s assets and liabilities are as of a particular date, but it does not explain how those assets were funded. This important information is provided by the cash. Cash & cash equivalents: the statement of cash flows reconciles the beginning and ending balances of cash and cash equivalents. Cash equivalents include all short-term, highly liquid investments. For an instrument to qualify as a cash equivalent, the following must be satisfied: 1. The instrument is easily convertible to known amounts of cash.

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