{"id":8790,"date":"2015-07-20T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T06:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2015-07-18T18:34:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T16:34:40","slug":"statement-of-cash-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/statement-of-cash-flows\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of cash flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cash flows are in fact very important for your company. \u2018Cash\u2019 in itself is a resource usable for everything your business needs to keep on running \u2013 buying goods to sell, paying for wages, buying services and so on. It\u2019s also a resource to be paid as dividends, i.e. owner\u2019s income from the operations of the company.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Understanding whether you have inflows or outflows of cash is crucial to evaluating whether your business is in fact generating or losing cash. For this purpose there\u2019s the \u2018statement of cash flows\u2019 that\u2019s prepared for a reporting period and separate into groups \u2013 operational activities, investing activities and financing activities. We\u2019ll cover those in our later posts.<\/p>\n<p>The thing with statement of cash flows is that it\u2019s not often enough prepared for some reason. Although it\u2019s not required more often than just once a year when you prepare the Annual Report, I suggest you take the time and alongside with each period\u2019s balance sheet and income statement you prepare to understand where your company stands performance wise, you also add up your company\u2019s cash flows to understand whether there\u2019s money flowing in or out from your company and it\u2019s business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash flows are in fact very important for your company. \u2018Cash\u2019 in itself is a resource usable for everything your business needs to keep on running \u2013 buying goods to sell, paying for wages, buying services and so on. It\u2019s also a resource to be paid as dividends, i.e. owner\u2019s income from the operations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-5-statement-of-cash-flows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}