International accounting standards 12 Flashcards
The financial statements:
- Statement of Cash Flows
- Balance sheet (Statement of Financial Position)
- Income statement (Profit and loss statement P&L)
- Statement of Changes in Equity
- Additional Information (Notes)
Statement of cash flows:
Receipts (inflows)
Payments (outflows)
Required by IFRS
An important statement, as the objective of financial
reporing is, among others, „assessing the amounts, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows
Balance sheet:
- Assets
- Liability
-Equity
Income statement
Revenues and gains
Expenses and losses
= Net Income
Statement of Cash Flows: content
- Operating Activities - Transactions that enter into the
determination of net income. - Investing Activities - Making and collecting loans and acquiring and disposing of investments and non-current assets
- Financing Activities - Transactions involving liability and equity items.
Operating activities:
Inflows: When cash receipts (revenue) exceed (przekroczą) cash expenditures (expenses)
Outflows: When cash expenditures (expenses)
exceed cash receipts (revenue)
Investing activities:
Inflows:
* Sale of property, plant, and equipment
* Sale of debt or equity securities of other
entities
* Collection of loans to other entities
Outflows:
Purchase of property, plant, and
equipment
* Purchase of debt or equity securities of
other entities
* Making loans to other entitie
Financing activities:
Inflows:
- Issuance of equity securities
* Issuance of debt (bonds and notes)
Outflows:
* Payment of dividends*
* Reaquisition of shares
* Redemption of debt
Significant non- cash activities:
- Direct issuance of ordinary shares to purchase assets.
- Conversion of bonds into ordinary shares.
- Direct issuance of debt to purchase assets.
- Exchanges of plant assets.
Companies report significant financing and investing activities that do not affect cash in either a
- Supplementary schedule (bottom on the statement)
- Separate note to the financial statements.
Companies must convert net income from an accrual basis to a cash basis using either of two methods
- Indirect method adjusts net income for items that do not affect cash.
- Direct method shows operating cash receipts and payments.
Companies favor the indirect method for two
reasons:
- Easier and less costly to prepare.
- Focuses on differences between net income and net cash flow from operating activities
Free cash flow describes …
Free cash flow describes the net cash provided by operating activities after adjustment for capital expenditures and dividends.
Free Cash Flow = Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities – Capital Expenditures – Cash Dividends