The Cash Flow Statement

Lesson Objective

A corporate cash flow statement has three main parts: Cash Flow from Operating Activities, Cash Flow from Investing Activities and Cash from from Financing Activities.​

The Cash Flow Statement

Simplified Version

For our version of a Personal Cash Flow Statement we will summarize the three sections of a Corporate Cash Flow Statement.

Notice that our Simplified Personal Cash Flow Statement has two sections: "Sources of Income" and "Spending Categories".

Simplified Personal Cash Flow Statement

Simplified Personal Cash Flow Statement

• Cash Flow Statement: A financial statement that shows the inflows and outflows of cash.

• Importance: Provides insights into your liquidity and summarizes operating activities, and investing and financing activities.

• Key Components: Sources of Income and Spending Categories

• Analysis: Helps assess your ability to generate cash and your financial health in particular your liquidity which is how much cash is available for personal uses.

Recreate this Personal Cash Flow Statement in Excel. Please close out this lesson and use the PDF version of this Cash Flow Statement provided in Schoology to recreate an Excel version using the same numbers and automated calculations and formulas as needed.

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Personal Cash Flow Statement