SSAP 15 mandates that the statement of cash flows segregates a company's cash flows into five standard categories :operating; returns on investment and servicing of finance; taxation;investing and financing cash flows. Such standard headings is to "ensure that cash flows are reported in a form that highlights the significant components of cash flow and facilitates comparison of the cash flow performance of different businesses." These requirements appear to be based on the belief that: (a) past cash flows, in addition to earnings, are useful for assessing future cash flows, and (b) the cash flow statement complements and presents information different from that provided in the financial statements. However,it allows the cash flows from operations be prepared using, either the 'direct' or the 'indirect' method. Although both the methods lead to the same final figure of cash flows from operation, the presentation is quite different. The direct method reports cash flows from operations on a gross basis by disclosing major classes of operating cash receipts (such as receipts from customers) and cash payments (such as suppliers and employees).The indirect method reports only net cash flows from operations. However,both methods require a reconciliation between operating profits and net cash flows from operations to be shown as a note to the cash flow
statement.
The objective of this paper is to examine the pros and cons of the cash flow statements and funds flow statements with an attempt to study the viewpoints of the Hong Kong financial statements usefulness of the cash flow statement.
SSAP 15 mandates that the statement of cash flows segregates a company's cash flows into five standard categories :operating; returns on investment and servicing of finance; taxation;investing and financing cash flows. Such standard headings is to "ensure that cash flows are reported in a form that highlights the significant components of cash flow and facilitates comparison of the cash flow performance of different businesses." These requirements appear to be based on the belief that: (a) past cash flows, in addition to earnings, are useful for assessing future cash flows, and (b) the cash flow statement complements and presents information different from that provided in the financial statements. However,it allows the cash flows from operations be prepared using, either the 'direct' or the 'indirect' method. Although both the methods lead to the same final figure of cash flows from operation, the presentation is quite different. The direct method reports cash flows from operations on a gross basis by disclosing major classes of operating cash receipts (such as receipts from customers) and cash payments (such as suppliers and employees).The indirect method reports only net cash flows from operations. However,both methods require a reconciliation between operating profits and net cash flows from operations to be shown as a note to the cash flowstatement.The objective of this paper is to examine the pros and cons of the cash flow statements and funds flow statements with an attempt to study the viewpoints of the Hong Kong financial statements usefulness of the cash flow statement.
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