You Are on a Team Responsible for Addressing Cash Flow

question 76

Essay

You are on a team responsible for addressing cash flow problems with other managers in your corporate division. Your accounting department has provided your team with the statement of cash flows prepared using the indirect method. At your first meeting, some of the managers have expressed concerns about the statement’s understandability and do not view the statement as anything other than a “rearranged income statement”. The managers have requested that your team explain to them how the statement is constructed.

Required:

Answer the following questions posed by the managers relating to the investing and financing sections of the statement of cash flows.

a. What types of items are reported in the investing section of the statement of cash flows?

b. What about the book value of an asset? How is it shown on the statement of cash flows?

c. What types of items are reported in the financing section of the statement of cash flows?

d. What about interest received and dividends received. Why are these items not shown in the investing section of the statement of cash flows?

Evaluate the balance between public interest and individual rights within the context of progressive reforms, using specific examples.

Discuss the long-term effects of the Progressive movement on American views of government, individual rights, capitalism, and how these have shaped contemporary political and economic views.

Understand the basic emotions as identified by Carroll Izard and their significance.

Recognize the physiological changes associated with different emotions, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels.

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Definitions:

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Puritans

A group of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices.

Perpetual Anxiety

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