Cash flow Statement is used to show all the cash inflows and outflows from the organization which is not shown any where else in financial statement. In accrual accounting system where there is no information available when actuall cash is coming and going out of business it is important for everybody to know that when actuall cash is coming and going out to make better decision making
Cash flow is revenue or expenses stream that changes a cash account over or given period.
A decrease in an amount owed to you, an Account Receivable, yields additional cash flow available to fund operations, obligation, or any allocation of cash.
It decreases the cash flow as it is the amount the customers owe but not pay off.
cash flows from operating activities
The taxes payable account affects cash flow from operating activities by reflecting the timing of tax payments. An increase in the taxes payable account indicates that a company has accrued tax liabilities without yet making cash payments, which effectively boosts cash flow from operating activities in the short term. Conversely, a decrease in the taxes payable account suggests that the company has paid down its tax liabilities, resulting in a reduction of cash flow from operating activities. Therefore, changes in this account can significantly influence the reported cash flow for the year.
Depreciation is taken out of cash flow information because it does not account for any cashflow, just like provisions. The notes which account for this deduction is "Reconciliation of PBT with cash generated from Operation".
Equity account or increase or decrease in equity account is shown in cash flow from financing activities.
The profit and loss account, the cash flow account and the balance sheet
Cash flow is simply the money that "flows" into or out of an account. The term flow is used because John Maynard Keynes used the analogy of a river to describe economies.
capital lease is part of cash flow from investing activities and payment in this regard is shown in this section of statement.
in Account payable and account receivable
Annuity is fixed sum of money paid every year in at any other fixed interval shorter than a year. This annuity may be by way of return of some principal plus interest payment of against money invested or by way of payment of other dues such as pensions after retirement. In any case it represents out flow of cash from one account to in flow of cash to another account. In this way all annuities involve movements of cash or funds. Therefore all annuities are cash flows that can be suitably represented in cash flow statements. An annuity will be represented as inflow of cash in the cash flow statement for the recipient of the annuity and out flow of cash in the cash flow statement of the person or firm paying out the annuity.