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Cash and cash equivalents. Cash equivalents are held for the purpose of meeting short-term cash commitments rather than for investment or other purposes. For an investment to qualify as a cash equivalent it must be readily convertible to a known amount of cash and be subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value.
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Cash and Cash Equivalents. What is Cash? A financial asset: also a financial instrument. Financial Instrument: Any contract that gives rise to a financial asset of one entity and a financial liability or equity interest of another entity. Cash Is: Most liquid asset. Standard medium of exchange.
- 2.2 CaSh and CaSh equIvalentS
- 2.2.1 Bank Reconciliation
- 2.2.2 Bank Overdraft
- 2.2.2.1 Balance Sheet Treatment of Bank Overdraft
- 2.2.2.2 Bank Overdraft and Statement of Cash Flows
- 2.2.3 Petty Cash
- 2.4 aCCOuntInG FOr FInanCIal InStruMentS
- 2.6 aCCOuntInG FOr hedGInG
Cash and cash equivalents is an asset that appears on the statement of finan-cial position of a business and includes currency (coins and banknotes) held by a business (in hand and in bank accounts) and cash equivalents. Cash is a medium of exchange, a store of value and a unit of account and a business needs to have sufficient cash in order to be ...
company’s cash balance at bank and its cash balance according to its accounting records usually do not match. This is due to the fact that, at any particular date, checks may be outstanding, deposits may be in transit to the bank, errors may have occurred, etc. Therefore companies have to carry out bank reconciliation process which prepares a state...
When a business’ bank account has a negative balance, it is said to be running a bank overdraft (more precisely an actual bank overdraft). It is a form of financing in which the bank honors presented checks even when there is no balance in the business account which results in nega-tive balance in the bank account. There is a special type of bank o...
When the bank has a right to offset the overdraft balance with another bank account of the business, the overdraft is netted off against the other bank accounts maintained with the same bank and the net bank balance is shown as the balance of cash at bank. When the bank has no such right to offset, the overdraft is reported as a liability and when ...
For the purpose of statement of cash flows, under US GAAP any changes in bank overdrafts for a period are appropriately reported as cash flows from financing activities. Under IFRS, however, bank overdraft is treated as part of cash and cash equivalents and movement in bank overdraft is not reported any-where in the statement of cash flows.
Petty cash fund is a relatively small amount of cash that businesses keep on hand for the purpose of small transactions such as providing change to customers, postage expenses, highway tolls. In such transactions, the use of checks is time consuming, costly, or illogical. Usually, a custodian is appointed to administer the petty cash and it is his/...
The financial reporting rules for financial instruments determine whether a particular type of instrument should be recorded at historical cost or at fair value. Historical cost is a measure of value based on the nominal or original cost at the time of acquisition, while fair value is a measure of value based on current market prices at the financi...
The objective of hedge treatment for financial reporting purposes is a proper matching of the timing of gain or loss recognition on a derivative instrument used for hedging purposes with the income or expense rec-ognition related to the item being hedged.12 For financial reporting pur-poses, the hedging instrument and the underlying asset are both ...
- Felix I. Lessambo
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Jun 8, 2023 · Cash and its equivalents are important sources of liquidity for businesses as they allow companies to quickly convert them into available funds when needed. Additionally, they help improve a company's creditworthiness as creditors view them as a sign of financial stability.
- Cash and cash equivalents refer to liquid assets that can be readily converted into known amounts of cash, such as bank deposits, certificates of d...
- Examples of cash equivalents include short-term fixed income investments with a maturity period of three months or less, currency on hand, commerci...
- Cash and its equivalents are typically reported under current assets on the balance sheet, since they are liquid assets that can easily be converte...
- Businesses often use their available cash or cash equivalents to fund daily operations, pay for short-term investments or purchase necessary suppli...
The Essentials—Cash Flow Statements. A statement of cash flows provides. investors with information about cash inflows and outflows and the resulting change in cash and cash equivalents. For this purpose cash flows are classified into three key activities: operating, investing and financing.
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May 25, 2024 · In the realm of financial management, cash equivalents play a crucial role in maintaining liquidity and ensuring operational efficiency. These highly liquid assets are essential for businesses to meet short-term obligations without incurring significant losses.
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Cash flow information is useful in assessing the ability of the entity to generate cash and cash equivalents and enables users to develop models to assess and compare the present value of the future cash flows of different entities.
