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Chapter 14: Q-14-2RQ (page 768)
Question: How does the statement of cash flows help users of financial statements?
Answer
The statement of cash flows helps users in various ways such as comparison with other firms in operating efficiency, liquidity, and solvency, reconciliation of cash balance, etc
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Question: Describe the three basic types of cash flow activities.
Using a spreadsheet to complete the statement of cash flows— indirect method
Companies can use a spreadsheet to complete the statement of cash flows. Each item that follows is recorded in the transaction analysis columns of the spreadsheet.
Identify each as being recorded by a Debit or Credit in the statement of cash flows section of the spreadsheet
Question: Classifying items on the indirect statement of cash flows
Destiny Corporation is preparing its statement of cash flows by the indirect method. Destiny has the following items for you to consider in preparing the statement:
a. Increase in accounts payable
b. Payment of dividends
c. Decrease in accrued liabilities
d. Issuance of common stock
e. Gain on sale of building
f. Loss on sale of land
g. Depreciation expense
h. Increase in merchandise inventory
i. Decrease in accounts receivable
j. Purchase of equipment
Identify each item as a(n): • Operating activity—addition to net income (O+) or subtraction from net income (O-) • Investing activity—cash inflow (I+) or cash outflow (I-) • Financing activity—cash inflow (F+) or cash outflow (F-) • Activity that is not used to prepare the indirect statement of cash flows (N)
Preparing the statement of cash flows—indirect method, evaluating cash flows, and measuring free cash flows
The comparative balance sheet of Robeson Educational Supply at December 31, 2018, reported the following:
2018 2017 Current Assets: Cash \( 83,900 \) 20,500 Accounts Receivable 14,500 21,800 Merchandise Inventory 61,800 60,400 Current Liabilities: Accounts Payable 29,600 28,100 Accrued Liabilities 10,500 11,900 Robeson’s transactions during 2018 included the following:
Payment of cash dividends \( 21,200
Depreciation expense \) 17,400
Purchase of equipment with cash 54,400
Purchase of building with cash 103,000
Issuance of long-term notes payable to borrow cash 44,000
Net income 63,600
Issuance of common stock for cash 111,000
Requirements
1. Prepare the statement of cash flows of Robeson Educational Supply for the year ended December 31, 2018. Use the indirect method to report cash flows from operating activities.
2. Evaluate Robeson’s cash flows for the year. Mention all three categories of cash flows, and give the reason for your evaluation.
3. If Robeson plans similar activity for 2018, what is its expected free cash flow?
The 2018 comparative balance sheet and income statement of Appleton Group, Inc. follow. Appleton disposed of a plant asset at book value during 2018
Prepare the spreadsheet for the 2018 statement of cash flows. Format cash flows from operating activities by the indirect method. A plant asset was disposed of for \(0. The cost and accumulated depreciation of the disposed asset was \)11,600. There were no sales of land, no retirement of common stock, and no treasury stock transactions. Assume plant asset and land acquisitions were for cash.
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