4.6Investment Foundations · Mission 6

Trace Cash to the Investor

Scan every operating, investing, and financing cash movement, then change perspective from the company cash balance to equity and whole-firm cash flow.

Your investigation

Reconcile the $5m cash increase, build $27m FCFE and $28m FCFF, pass five corrected source concepts, and save the final brief.

Start the cash scan
28–32 minutesFour evidence scansInvestor Statement Brief
Cedar Works · Filing investigation
Evidence file 1 of 4
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OPS filing guide

Operating, investing, and financing classifications organize company cash receipts and payments. Their totals reconcile the period's change in cash.

Open all three cash-flow sections and run the reconciliation.

Evidence file 1 · Scan the cash statement

Three sections explain one change in cash

Definition · statement of cash flows

A period report that classifies company cash receipts and payments into operating, investing, and financing activities and reconciles the change in cash.

Investor question

How did profit and working capital turn into operating cash?

Net income$39m
Depreciation and amortization$17m
Increase in accounts receivable−$5m
Increase in inventory−$8m
Increase in accounts payable$4m
Open all three cash-flow sections and run the reconciliation.
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