The ability to predict returns to investors and creditors is somewhat complex because management may decide to use cash in a variety of manners, and the uses of cash are interrelated. For example, available cash may be reinvested in assets, or used to expand facilities and markets, retire debt and equity, or pay dividends. Accounting researchers are interested in determining the relationship between accounting information and decision making. Empirical research has indicated that cash-flow data has incremental information content over accrual earning data and that cash-flow data is superior to change in working capital information.28 These findinfs support the FASB’s position on the disclosure of cash-flow data because they provide evidence that such information may result in better decisions. They also indicate that even given the uncertainties surrounding the alternate uses of available cash by firms, knowledge of past cash-flow information allows investors and creditors to make better predictions of future cash flows and assessments of risk.