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What is cash flow statment?

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A cash flow statement seeks to project or report cash flows after expenses that could be used for debt service or retained earnings.

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Cash flow statment is that in which only cash transaction are involved. All the payment or receipt related only with cash.


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Depreciation is added back to net income in cash flow statment because it is not involve directly in reduction of cash while preparing cash flows of operating activities using indirect method.


Why is the Statement of Cash Flows needed when most of the information in it is available from a firms comparative Balance Sheets and Income Statement?

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What are the formats of financial aspect?

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What financial statement has accounting estimates?

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Are preferred dividends declared and paid added to net income in calculating net cash flow from operating activites using the indirect method?

Dividend declared and paid is shown under cash flows from financing activities in cash flow statment as it is not primary operating activity of business.


Where do you enter Retained Earnings on a Cash Flow Statement?

Retained Earnings does not appear on a cash flow statement; however, the net profit or loss for the period (which gets closed to Retained Earnings) is usually the second item on the cash flow report. Beginning Cash Balance is the first. Then, all the cash changes on the Balance Sheet (such as reduction of debt) and the non-cash items on the Income Statment (such as depreciation) are listed to reconcile to the Ending Cash Balance.


Why non cash expenses considered in operating cash flow?

While preparing cash flow statment using indirect method, non-cash expenses are added back to net income because in net income these expenses were deducted to arrive at net income while there is no cash inflow or outflow from these activities so that's why to arrive cash flow from operating activities these items are added back to arrive at cash flow from operations.


What does the three columnar side of cash book represents?

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