Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (4th Edition)
Financial Accounting, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (4th Edition)
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Author: Robert Kemp, Jeffrey Waybright
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Chapter 11, Problem 1DQ
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Explain the reasons why a statement of cash flows are important to users of financial statements.

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Statement of cash flows: It is one of the financial statement that shows the cash and cash equivalents of a company for a particular period. It determines the net changes in cash through reporting the sources and uses of cash due to the operating, investing, and financing activities of a company.

  • The statement of cash flows provides awareness to the sources and uses of cash.
  • The users named the cash as the lifeblood of the business.
  • The user assumes that if cash is used in the business operations than it generated and liquidating its investments in assets to ensure the company to be out of debt.
  • Therefore, the statements of cash flows are important to the financial statement users.

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