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Preparing the Completed Statement of Cash Flows, Indirect Method

Assembling the full statement ties the operating, investing, and financing sections together with supplemental disclosures, and every total must reconcile to the balance sheet cash change before the statement is released.

1. The full assembly

The full assembly

2. Reading the assembled statement

Reading the assembled statement

3. Common assembly errors

Common assembly errors

4. The statement in context

The statement in context

5. Reconciliation target

What must the net change in cash on the statement equal?

6. Supplemental schedule content

What belongs in the supplemental schedule of an indirect-method statement?

7. Self-funding pattern

A company's operations generate enough cash to fund its investing and financing outflows fully. What does this pattern signal?

8. Double-counting trap

A gain on equipment sale was not adjusted out of the operating section. What is the consequence?

9. Ending cash computation

Beginning cash is 60,000 dollars and the net change from the three sections is 47,000 dollars. Compute ending cash in dollars, number only.

10. Noncash disclosure example

Equipment acquired by signing a 40,000 dollar note appears in which disclosure? Two words.

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