Case:
Analyze the statement of cash flows in the HBS case: Statement of Cash Flows - Three Examples and answer the following questions :
Exhibits contain cash-flow statements from three companies. Each cash-flow statement has three years of data. Examine the contents of these cash-flow statements carefully.
Answer the following questions about each of the three cash-flow statements.
I. For each of the years on the Statement of Cash Flows:
1. What were the firm's major sources of cash? Its major uses of cash?
2. Was cash flow from operations greater than or less than net income? Explain in detail the major reasons for the difference between these two figures.
3. Was the firm able to generate enough cash from operations to pay for all of its capital expenditures?
4. Did the cash flow from operations cover both the capital expenditures an d the firm's dividend payments, if any?
5. If it did, how did the firm invest its excess cash?
6. If not, what were the sources of cash the firm used to pay for the capital expenditures and / or dividends?
7. Were the working capital (current asset and current liability) accounts other than cash and cash equiva lents primarily sources of cash, or users of cash?
8. What other major items affected cash flows?
II. What was the trend in:
9. Net income?
10. Cash flow from (continuing) operations?
I 1. Capital expenditures?
12. Dividends?
13. Net borrowing (proceeds less payments of short- and long-tenn debt)?
14. Working capital accounts?
Ill. Based on the evidence in the Statement of Cash Flows a lone, what is your assessment of the financial strength of this business? Why?
Attachment:- Statement of Cash Flows.pdf