The Importance of Cash Flow Statements (And How to Prepare Them)

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The Importance of Cash Flow Statements (And How to Prepare Them)

Effectively managing and monitoring a company’s cash flows serves many purposes. Not only does this information enable stakeholders to monitor and prevent company debt, it also prevents unnecessary expenditures from interest, late payment penalties and debt costs, while ensuring timely investment and cash flow available for investment opportunities.

Cash flow statements are an ideal way to showcase how much cash a company started a period with, how they spent and received cash, and the ending cash balance that is available to be used for future investments of distributions. Unlike other financial reports, cash flow statements do not include any future expected cash payments.  Instead, cash flow statements show only cash that has physically entered or left a company.

We recently partnered with our friends at Lendified on an article showcasing the importance of cash flow statements. In the article, we outline what a cash flow statement consists of, how to successfully prepare a cash flow statement, and provide examples of what a business is capable of when they have a better insight into their financial situation.

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Omar Visram
About Omar Visram
Omar Visram is the Co-founder and CEO of Enkel Backoffice Solutions Inc. Headquartered in Vancouver, Enkel provides bookkeeping, payroll, accounts payable and accounts receivable services to over 300 organizations Canada-wide.