Chapter 3
Income Flows versus Cash Flows:
Understanding the Statement of Cash Flows
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in whole or in part.
3.26 Preparing a Statement of Cash Flows from Balance Sheets and Income State-
ments.
a. Worksheets for the preparation of statements of cash flows for Year 2, Year 3,
and Year 4 appear on the following pages.
c. Cash flow from operations exceeded net income during Year 2 because of the
addbacks for depreciation and deferred taxes. Changes in current assets slightly
exceeded changes in current liabilities, suggesting effective working capital
management. Cash flow from operations was insufficient to fund expenditures
payment time. The firm substantially increased its purchase of property, plant,
and equipment during Year 3, financing its purchases with cash flow from oper-
ations and additional long-term debt. The use of operating cash flows to finance
purchases of fixed assets is generally undesirable if it occurs as it does in this
case from stretching short-term suppliers.
al long-term debt and partly with issuances of common stock.
d. The cash flow problems of Flight Training Corporation can be traced to
expanding fixed assets too rapidly, relative to increases in sales, and to using
cash flow from operations, in part, to finance the purchases. Sales increased
76.3% [($36,597/$20,758) – 1] between Year 2 and Year 3 while fixed
ple, jet fuel) and services (for example, pilots’ services) needed to remain in
business.