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Operating Activities Are The Transactions From The Revenue Generating Activities
Operating Activities Are The Transactions From The Revenue Generating Activities
Operating Activities Are The Transactions From The Revenue Generating Activities
ACCTNG 025
1. Describe the statement of cash flows and enumerate the three classifications.
Statement of clash flow is a financial statement that shows the flow or movement
of the cash and cash equivalents that’s going in and out of the company. This will
measure how effective and good the company is, in managing their cash position. It is a
part of the complete set of financial statement that a company has to prepare and present.
This will show help in analyzing the changes in cash and cash equivalents during the
period.
Statement of cash flow has three classifications namely the operating activities,
investing activities, and financing activities.
Operating activities rooted from the revenue generating activities; Investing
activities focuses on the long-term assets and investments; and financing activities are
usually the activities that a company undertakes which affects the equity and long-term
liabilities.
2. Explain the component of method of presentation of operating cash flows, investing
cash flows and financing cash flows.
Operating activities are the transactions from the revenue generating activities
which can be computed though indirect and direct method. In indirect method, the profit
or loss is adjusted by the effects of the non-cash transactions, hence, the increase and
decrease of some accounts are observed. In direct method, it focuses more on the sources
of cash receipts and expenses, thus, it uses the actual cash outflow or inflow from the
operations. On the other hand, investing activities are the transactions from acquiring or
disposing long-terms assets and other investments, whereas, financing activities are the
transactions that focuses on funding the company, raising the capital or paying the
creditor or investors, and the like. The two can use direct method. It doesn’t matter what
method because both indirect and direct will result to the same figures. Hence, both
would be identical under any of the two methods.