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Intacc3 Cash Flows
Intacc3 Cash Flows
Primary Purpose: to provide relavant information about cash receipts and cash payments of an entity
during a period
- equity securities are not qualified as cash equivalents (only debt securities)
Three Qualifications
- Classification by Activity
1. Operating Activity
* derived primarily from the principal revenue producing activities of the entity
* result from transactions that enter into the determination of net income or loss'
* cash flows arising from purchase and sale of dealing and trading securities
2. Investing Activity
3. Financing Activity
* cash flows derived from equity capital and borrowing of the entity
* result from:
Noncash Transactions
- Investing & Financing transactions w/o cash and cash equivalents are not included in the Statement of
Cash Flows (These are disclosed separately)
- Alternatively:
* INTEREST PAID may be classified as financing cash flow (cost of obtaining financial resources)
- DIVIDENDS PAID: shall be classified as financing cash flow (cost of obtaining financial resources)
Income Taxes
- cash flows from income taxes shall be separately disclosed as cash flows from operating activities
* tax cash flows are often difficult to match to the originating underlying transactions, so most of the
time all tax cash flows are classifies as arising from OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Direct Method
- shows in detail or itemizes the major classes of gross cash receipts and gross payments
Indirect Method
- net income or loss is adjusted for the effects of transactions of a noncash nature
- any defferals or accruals of past or future operating cash receipts and payments, and items of income
or expense associated with investing and financing activities