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Chapter 14: Q26E (page 780)

Use the Rouse Exercise Equipment data in Exercises E14-23 and E14-24. Rouse plans to purchase a truck for \(23,000 and a forklift for \)125,000 next year. In addition, it plans to pay cash dividends of $3,500. Assuming Rouse plans similar activity for 2019, what would be the amount of free cash flow?

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The free cash flow amount of the company is $12,000.

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Step-by-Step SolutionStep 1: Free Cash Flow

Free cash flow means the cash produced by the company after considering and studying the cash outflows for running its business operations and keeping up its capital assets.

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Calculation of free cash flows

Freecashflow=Cashflowfromoperatingactivity-Capitalexpenditure=$160,000-($23,000+$125,000)=$12,000

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Most popular questions from this chapter

Preparing the direct method statement of cash flows Use the data in Short Exercise S14A-12 and your results. Prepare the business’s complete statement of cash flows for the year ended June 30, 2018, using the direct method for operating activities.

Accountants for Benson, Inc. have assembled the following data for the year ended December 31, 2018:

2018 2017 Current Assets: Cash \( 105,100 \) 18,000 Accounts Receivable 64,400 68,900 Merchandise Inventory 86,000 82,000 Current Liabilities: Accounts Payable 58,000 56,100 Income Tax Payable 14,700 16,900

Transaction Data for 2018:

Issuance of common stock for cash \( 37,000

Payment of notes payable \) 47,100

Depreciation expense 24,000

Payment of cash dividends 53,000

Purchase of equipment with cash 69,000

Issuance of notes payable to borrow cash 68,000

Acquisition of land by issuing long-term notes payable 123,000

Gain on sale of building 4,500

Book value of building sold 61,000

Net income 66,000

Prepare Benson’s statement of cash flows using the indirect method. Include an accompanying schedule of non-cash investing and financing activities

Question: Preparing the statement of cash flows—indirect method Use the Preston Media Corporation data in Short Exercise S14-7 and the results you calculated from the requirements. Prepare Preston Media’s statement of cash flows— indirect method—for the year ended December 31, 2018.

Computing cash flows for investing and financing activities Consider the following facts for Java Jolt:

  1. Beginning and ending Retained Earnings are \(45,000 and \)70,000, respectively. Net income for the period is \(60,000.
  2. Beginning and ending Plant Assets are \)124,500 and \(134,500, respectively.
  3. Beginning and ending Accumulated Depreciation—Plant Assets are \)21,500 and \(26,500, respectively.
  4. Depreciation Expense for the period is \)17,000, and acquisitions of new plant assets total \(29,000. Plant assets were sold at a \)5,000 gain. Requirements 1. How much are cash dividends? 2. What was the amount of the cash receipt from the sale of plant assets?

Question: Muench, Inc.’s accountant has partially completed the spreadsheet for the statement of cash flows. Fill in the remaining missing information.
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