ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
1. (a) The statement of cash flows reports the cash receipts, cash payments, and net change in cash
resulting from the operating, investing, and financing activities of a company during a
period.
2. The statement of cash flows answers the following questions about cash: (a) Where did the cash
come from during the period? (b) What was the cash used for during the period? and (c) What was
the change in the cash balance during the period?
4. (a) Major inflows of cash in a statement of cash flows include cash from operations; issuance of
debt; collection of loans; issuance of capital stock; sale of investments; and the sale of
property, plant, and equipment.
5. The statement of cash flows presents investing and financing activities so that even noncash
transactions of an investing and financing nature are disclosed in the financial statements. If they
affect financial conditions significantly, the FASB requires that they be disclosed in either a separate
schedule at the bottom of the statement of cash flows or in a separate note or supplementary
schedule to the financial statements.
8. The advantage of the direct method is that it presents the major categories of cash receipts and
cash payments in a format that is similar to the income statement and familiar to statement users. Its
principal disadvantage is that the necessary data can be expensive and time-consuming to accumulate.