INTRODUCTION
Financial statement is valuable and important to users of financial statement to reflect
the performance and financial position of the enterprise (Kang,2002).Cash flows budgeting is
a part of financial statement that shows the changes of cash flow receipts and cash flow
expenses, or cash equivalent particulars of three activities i.e. management activity, investment
activity, and fund procurement, which can help users of financial statement to estimate liquidity
and ability to pay debts of the enterprise (Orpurt&Zang,2009). Cash flows in management
activity are data that show main activities that generate revenues for the enterprise (Dechow,
Kothari & Watts, 1998). This being information to communicate or messages useful to users
of financial statement (Barth, Cram &Nelson, 2002) especially for investors who use the
information in decision making in estimating securities (Ball & Kothari, 1991). This research,
then, has an objective to study the relationship of cash flow ratios and future earnings and
financial costs of companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, by studying all the
analysis of units from sample groups and analysis of sub-groups of each business group, which
is very useful to developing countries that need funding from abroad. They may use results
from this research to specify practices in accounting to obtain correct and appropriate
information on the business environment and investors’ needs. Moreover, the Stock Exchange
of Thailand is a developing capital market which is trying to emphasize the importance and
usefulness of disclosure of information in the financial statement of listed companies.
Especially, investors who can use the analysis of the data to appropriately supplement their
investment decision making.(Chen & Kaom, 2004).Moreover, the office that oversees the
management of the capital market can use the resulted findings to define the disclosures of
important information to create reliability among investors of both Thais and foreigners, which
is an important practice in investment that will have a further positive effect on to the economic
stability of Thailand.