{"id":2688,"date":"2012-02-08T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2012-02-05T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T07:55:06","slug":"help-with-cash-flow-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/help-with-cash-flow-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Help with Cash Flow differences!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are positive that you included everything possible and needed, did the check to make sure all one off deals are disclosed, made sure that actual cash moved in the amounts stated and still end up with a difference. <\/p>\n<p>In case the difference is small, the easiest way and less stressful then trying to find where it arises, is simply adding it to some line, which cannot be easily matched with something from the main statements and notes. The differences, in case you are sure about all other numbers, can easily be a part of something vague, like fixed assets acquisition \u2013 there may easily be invoices still unpaid so the result doesn\u2019t have to match with the acquisitions disclosed in relevant notes anyway. <\/p>\n<p>Also a good thought here is to make sure you add it into a group from which it makes say less than 10%. You wouldn\u2019t want the difference added to affect the line value considerably.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIf the difference however is still big, think through all listed above and also ensure that some things aren\u2019t perhaps listed double in different lines. It\u2019s always a possibility. Make sure you\u2019re absolutely okay about the lines which come from the balance sheet \u2013 changes in inventory, receivables and payable \u2013 those are always the easiest. Add depreciation, interest payments and see what\u2019s left on the balance sheet that hasn\u2019t been included and involves cash \u2013 i.e. payments into or out of equity etc.<\/p>\n<p>When you are sure about the amounts more or less, try to approach it with more creativity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are positive that you included everything possible and needed, did the check to make sure all one off deals are disclosed, made sure that actual cash moved in the amounts stated and still end up with a difference. In case the difference is small, the easiest way and less stressful then trying to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-reporting","category-4-5-statement-of-cash-flows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}