Cash flow

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Royal Dutch Shell Plc said the startup of big new projects would drive a 50 percent rise in its cashflow and a 25 percent rise in oil and gas production in the coming years.
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Cash flow

Cash flow refers to the movement of cash into or out of a business, a project, or a financial product. It is usually measured during a specified, finite period of time. Measurement of cash flow can be used as followed:

  • To determine a project's rate of return or value. The time of cash flows into and out of projects are used as inputs in financial models such as internal rate of return, and net present value.
  • To determine problems with a business's liquidity. Being profitable does not necessarily mean being liquid. A company can fail because of a shortage of cash, even while profitable.
  • As an alternate measure of a business's profits when it is believed that accrual accounting concepts do not represent economic realities. For example, a company may be notionally profitable but generating little operational cash (as may be the case for a company that barters its products rather than selling for cash). In such a case, the company may be deriving additional operating cash by issuing shares, or raising additional debt finance.
  • Cash flow can be used to evaluate the 'quality' of Income generated by accrual accounting. When Net Income is composed of large non-cash items it is considered low quality.
  • To evaluate the risks within a financial product. E.g. matching cash requirements, evaluating default risk, re-investment requirements, etc.

Cash flow is a generic term used differently depending on the context. It may be defined by users for their own purposes. It can refer to actual past flows, or to projected future flows. It can refer to the total of all the flows involved or to only a subset of those flows. Subset terms include 'net cash flow', operating cash flow and free cash flow.

Ways Companies Can Augment Reported Cash Flow

Common methods include:

  • Sales - Sell the receivables to a factor for instant cash. (leading)
  • Inventory - Don't pay your suppliers for an additional few weeks at period end. (lagging)
  • Sales Commissions - Management can form a separate (but unrelated) company and act as its agent. The book of business can then be purchased quarterly as an investment.
  • Wages - Remunerate with stock options.
  • Maintenance - Contract with the predecessor company that you prepay five years worth for them to continue doing the work
  • Equipment Leases - Buy it
  • Rent - Buy the property (sale and lease back, for example).
  • Oil Exploration costs - Replace reserves by buying another company's.
  • Research & Development - Wait for the product to be proven by a start-up lab; then buy the lab.
  • Consulting Fees - Pay in shares from treasury since usually to related parties
  • Interest - Issue convertible debt where the conversion rate changes with the unpaid interest.
  • Taxes - Buy shelf companies with TaxLossCarryForward's. Or gussy up the purchase by buying a lab or O&G explore co. with the same TLCF.

Investors cash flow

Investors cash flow refers to the movement of cash into or out of your own pocket. An asset is something that puts money in your pocket, and a liability is something that takes money out of your pocket. [1]

Seen from a cash flow perspective, an asset is something that puts money in your pocket, and a liability is something that takes money out of your pocket. [2] The definition of cash flows for this purpose does not include increases in unrealized in share values, since such capital appreciation represents accessible cash to the shareholders only when it is paid or liquidated.

The definition of “total return,” however includes not only reported dividends, but increases in share values, since such capital appreciation represents accessible cash to the shareholders because they can liquidate their holdings at any moment in time. [3] But it does not provide cash flow now.

1590s, from caisse money box, 16c originally the money box, but the secondary sense of the money in it became sole meaning 18c. To convert to cash (as a check, etc.) is first attested 1811. Cash crop is attested from 1869; cash flow from 1954; cash register from 1879. [1] Flow from float, swim, go by sea, to flow, navigate, to pour out, rinse, flowing. [2]

References

  1. Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki ISBN-10: 0446677450 pg61
  2. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki ISBN-10: 0446677450 pg61
  3. Financial Valuation: Applications and Models (Wiley Finance) by James R. Hitchner ISBN-10: 0471761176 pg184
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