IPSAS 2

CASH FLOW STATEMENTS

Objective and Scope

✓ Objective: To provide users with a mechanism for assessing the ability

of the entity to generate cash and cash equivalents and the needs of
the enterprise to utilise those cash flows
✓ Scope: An enterprise should prepare a cash flow statement as an
integral part of their financial statements

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Benefits of Cash Flow Information
► enables users to evaluate the changes in net assets of an entity, its
financial structure (including its liquidity and solvency) and its ability to
affect the amounts and timing of cash flows in order to adapt to
changing circumstances and opportunities.
► useful in assessing the ability of the entity to generate cash and cash
equivalents
► enables users to develop models to assess and compare the present
value of the future cash flows of different entities.
► enhances the comparability of the reporting of operating performance
by different entities because it eliminates the effects of using different
accounting treatments for the same transactions and events.
► used as an indicator of the amount, timing and certainty of future cash
flows

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Definitions
► Cash: Cash on hand and demand deposits
► Cash equivalents: Short-term, highly liquid investments, readily
convertible to known amounts of cash and subject to insignificant risk
of changes in value
► Cash flows: cash + cash equivalents
► Operating activities: The principal revenue-producing activities and
other activities that are not investing or financing activities
► Investing activities: Acquisition and disposal of long-term assets and
other investments not included in cash equivalents
► Financing activities: Those that result in changes in the size and
composition of the equity capital and borrowings

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Presentation of a Cash Flow Statement

► Should report cash flows classified by operating, investing and

financing activities

► Reporting cash flows from operating activities:

► By direct method, or
► By indirect method

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Reporting cash flows from investing and financing
activities
► Generally cash flows are to be reported on a gross basis
► Except
► cash receipts and payments by customers when the cash flows
reflect the activities of the customer rather than the enterprise
► Cash receipts and payments for items where the turnover is
quick, the amounts large and maturities short

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Reporting Cash Flows on a Net Basis: Examples
► cash receipts and payments on behalf of customers when the
cash flows reflect the activities of the customer rather than those
of the entity;
► the acceptance and repayment of demand deposits of a bank;
► funds held for customers by an investment entity; and
► rents collected on behalf of, and paid over to, the owners of
properties.

► cash receipts and payments for items in which the turnover is

quick, the amounts are large, and the maturities are short.
► advances made for, and the repayment of:
► principal amounts relating to credit card customers;
► purchase and sale of investments; and
► other short-term borrowings, for example, those which have
a maturity period of three months or less.
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Reporting Cash Flows on a Net Basis – Financial
Institutions
► Cash flows arising from each of the following activities
of a financial institution may be reported on a net basis:
► cash receipts and payments for the acceptance and repayment of
deposits with a fixed maturity date;
► the placement of deposits with and withdrawal of deposits from
other financial institutions; and
► cash advances and loans made to customers and the repayment of
those advances and loans.

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Foreign currency cash flows

► Translate cash flows from transactions at the rate applicable at the

date of the cash flow
► Translate foreign subsidiary’s cash flows at the date of the cash flows

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Interest and dividends

► Received and paid are to be Disclosed separately

► Classified as operating, investing or financing

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Taxes on income

► Disclosed separately
► Operating unless can be specifically identified as arising from financing
and investing activities

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Acquisition/disposal of entities

► Aggregate cash flows

• Acquisitions
• Disposals
(As investing activities)

► Aggregate amounts
• Total purchase or disposal consideration
• Portion in cash and cash equivalents
• Amount of cash and cash equivalents in entities purchased or sold
• Other assets and liabilities in summary classes for entities
purchased or sold

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Non-cash transactions

► Investing and financing transactions that do not require the use of

cash or cash equivalents be excluded from a cash flow statement.

► Examples :
► the acquisition of assets either by assuming directly related
liabilities or by means of a finance lease;
► the acquisition of an entity by means of an equity issue; and
► the conversion of debt to equity

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Disclosures

➢ Components of cash and cash equivalents and present a

reconciliation of the amounts in its cash flow statement with the
equivalent items reported in the balance sheet.

➢ Disclose cash and cash equivalents held but not available for use by
group and management commentary.
► Eg. in foreign subsidiary subject to exchange controls

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