Simple Cash Flow Statement Forecast

Overview This exercise focuses on building a simple, single-year Cash Flow Statement by linking data from simplified Income Statement and Balance Sheet. You will learn how to calculate cash flows from operating, investing, and financing activities, and reconciling those flows to the ending cash balance. The goal is to help you understand how accounting profit translates into actual cash movement, and how changes across financial statements are connected. Learning Goals Calculate Cash Flow from Operating Activities (CFO) by adjusting EBITDA for non-cash items and changes in working capital. Determine Cash Flow from Investing Activities (CFI) by incorporating capital expenditures and changes in long-term assets. Compute Cash Flow from Financing Activities (CFF) using borrowings, equity changes, and dividend-related cash flows. Reconcile total cash flows to arrive at the Ending Cash Balance for 2023. Validate consistency across the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. Key Concepts Operating Activities: Cash generated or used in the company’s core business operations. Investing Activities: Cash flows related to the purchase or sale of long-term assets such as PP&E. Financing Activities: Cash flows arising from debt, equity, and dividend transactions. EBITDA: A proxy for operating cash flow before accounting for non-cash and financing effects. Non-Cash Adjustments: Items such as depreciation and amortization that affect earnings but not cash. Changes in Working Capital: Movements in receivables, inventory, payables, and other short-term accounts that impact cash. Net Income: The bottom-line profit that ultimately reconciles to cash through the Cash Flow Statement.

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