Statement of Cash Flows Solutions to Questions 14-1 The statement of cash flows highlights the major activities that impact cash flows and hence affect the overall cash balance. 14-2 Cash equivalents are short-term‚ highly liquid investments such as Treasury bills‚ commercial paper‚ and money market funds. They are included with cash because investments of this type are made solely for the purpose of generating a return on temporarily idle funds and they can be easily converted to cash. 14-3 (1)
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Chapter 12 Statement of Cash Flows True / False Questions 1. Interest and dividends from investments held by a company are reported as cash inflows from investing activities on the statement of cash flows. True False 2. Under the indirect method‚ changes in current assets are used in determining cash flows from operating activities and changes in current liabilities are used in determining cash flows from financing activities. True False 3. Using the indirect method‚ the increase
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Difference Between Cash Flow and Funds Flow Statement Many people think that both cash and fund are same‚ however they both are different and so is the case with cash flow statement and funds flow statement. Let’s look at some of the differences between cash flow and funds flow statement – 1. While funds flow statement reveals the change in the working capital of a company between two balance sheet dates while cash flow statement reveals the change in the cash position of the company between two balance
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Carpino Company CC: Ms. Lydia Money‚ Chief Executive Officer From: W. E. Count‚ Financial Analyst Date: 10/5/13 Re: Corporate Financial Position/Statement of Cash Flows I have been charged to examine the Financial Statements of Carpino Company for the purpose of providing an objective opinion regarding organizational capacity to generate sufficient cash to continue as a going concern. Toward that end‚ I have examined financial statements and have prepared the attached Statement of Cash Flows for
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THE ELEMENTS OF A CASH FLOW PROJECTION A capital budgeting decision is characterized by costs and benefits (cash flows) that are spread out over several time periods. This leads to a requirement that the time value of money be considered in order to evaluate the alternatives correctly. Although in actual practice we must consider risk as well as time value‚ to situations in which the costs and benefits (in terms of cash) are known with certainty. There are sufficient difficulties in just taking
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preparing a statement of cash flows‚ the term cash is broadly defined to include both cash and cash equivalents. Cash comprises cash on hand and demand deposit with banks. Cash equivalents consist of short term‚ highly liquid investments such as treasury bills‚ commercial paper‚ and money market funds. Such investments are made solely for the purpose of generating a return on funds that are temporary idle. Instead of simply holding cash‚ most companies invest their excess cash reserves in these types
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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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Explain. Our basic principle of stock valuation is that the value of a share of stock is simply equal to the present value of all of the expected dividends on the stock. According to the dividend growth model‚ an asset that has no expected cash flows has a value of zero‚ so if investors are willing to purchase shares of stock in firms that pay no dividends‚ they evidently expect that the firms will begin paying dividends at some point in the future. 2. Explain why some bond investors are
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CORPORATE LIQUIDITY‚ CASH FLOW SENSITIVITY‚ AND INVESTMENT DECISION Written by: Destria Kurnianti 10/309731/PEK/15164 Ratified on 18 Januari 2012 Supervisor Prof. Marwan Asri‚ MBA‚ Ph.D INTRODUCTION Modigliani and Miller (1958)‚ in a perfect market conditions there is no relationship between investment decisions and financing decisions. Although the assumption of perfect markets is eliminated‚ the separation between investment decisions and financing
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ANALYSIS FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 10TH Edition Robert C. Higgins Additional Problems Chapter 7 – Discounted Cash Flow Techniques page 247 A brief tutorial on Excel financial functions (problems to follow) You may find the following Excel‚ built-in financial functions helpful when analyzing the problems below. (To access these functions‚ select Insert‚ Functions‚ and choose Financial.) =PV(rate‚ nper‚ pmt‚ fv‚ type) returns the present value of a series of cash flows
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