information can be of significant help to users in assessing the amount, timing, and uncertainty of operating cash receipts and payments is useful in assessing am entity’s future operating cash flows. Information about the relationships of operating cash receipts and payments is useful in assessing an entity’s ability to generate sufficient cash from operations to pay debts, reinvest in operations, and make distributions to owners. Therefore, a direct method of presenting operating cash flows provides information that is consistent with the liquidity and financial flexibility objective.
The major deficiency of the indirect method is that it derives the net cash flow from operating activities without separately presenting any of the operating cash receipts and payments. For example, envision an income statement that begins with the change in shareholders’ equity for the period and than reverses any changes in equity that did not affect profit or loss or net income such as dividends, issuance of shares, and repurchases of shares. That income statement format would arrive at the net income amount for the period too, but the statement would not be useful.
The boards received comments that the indirect method provides a helpful link between income from continuing operations, changes in same line items in the statement of financial position, and net operating cash flows, The boards to be included in the notes to financial statements that recondiles cash flows to comprehensive income.
Under its current format, the statement of cash flows reports changes during an accounting period in cash and cash equivalents from operating, or financing activities. The new proposed format will have the same sections and categories as the statement of financial position and the statement of comprehensive income. That is, and entity will present the statement of cash flows by providing a section titled “Business” with the categories “Operating” and “Investing” followed by sections titled “Financing,” “Income Taxes,” “Discontinued Operations,”and “Equity.”
The classification of cash flows into the operating, investing, and financing categories in the proposed
26. See the earlier discussion on the objectives of financial statement presentation in Chapter 6.
presentation model is based on the classification of the related asset or liability. Therefore some differences may occur in how an entity classifies its cash flows using existing guidance from how it would classify its
information can be of significant help to users in assessing the amount, timing, and uncertainty of operating cash receipts and payments is useful in assessing am entity’s future operating cash flows. Information about the relationships of operating cash receipts and payments is useful in assessing an entity’s ability to generate sufficient cash from operations to pay debts, reinvest in operations, and make distributions to owners. Therefore, a direct method of presenting operating cash flows provides information that is consistent with the liquidity and financial flexibility objective.
The major deficiency of the indirect method is that it derives the net cash flow from operating activities without separately presenting any of the operating cash receipts and payments. For example, envision an income statement that begins with the change in shareholders’ equity for the period and than reverses any changes in equity that did not affect profit or loss or net income such as dividends, issuance of shares, and repurchases of shares. That income statement format would arrive at the net income amount for the period too, but the statement would not be useful.
The boards received comments that the indirect method provides a helpful link between income from continuing operations, changes in same line items in the statement of financial position, and net operating cash flows, The boards to be included in the notes to financial statements that recondiles cash flows to comprehensive income.
Under its current format, the statement of cash flows reports changes during an accounting period in cash and cash equivalents from operating, or financing activities. The new proposed format will have the same sections and categories as the statement of financial position and the statement of comprehensive income. That is, and entity will present the statement of cash flows by providing a section titled “Business” with the categories “Operating” and “Investing” followed by sections titled “Financing,” “Income Taxes,” “Discontinued Operations,”and “Equity.”
The classification of cash flows into the operating, investing, and financing categories in the proposed
26. See the earlier discussion on the objectives of financial statement presentation in Chapter 6.
presentation model is based on the classification of the related asset or liability. Therefore some differences may occur in how an entity classifies its cash flows using existing guidance from how it would classify its
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