Overview
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Great businesses can fail because of improperly managed cash flows. Learn the difference between net income and operating cash flow and how to manage your cash flow for growth.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Understanding cash flow analysis
- Home Depot, 1985: Case study
- Net income is not the same as operating cash flow
- Cash flow problems kill companies
- Introduction to the statement of cash flows
- Overview of the statement of cash flows
- Practice categorizing cash flows
- Deducing cash flow statements
- Interpreting Walmart's statement of cash flows
- Mortgage loan application
- Interpreting free cash flow statements
- Relationships in cash flow statements
- Determining loan decisions
- Classifying a cash cow company
- The Jim Stice operating cash flow matrix
- Understanding the direct method
- Understanding the indirect method
- Operating cash flow data as an IPO reality check
- Identifying economic performance
- Operating cash flow problems from high growth
- The Home Depot story revisited
- Managing operating cash flow
- Managing investing cash flow
- Managing financing cash flow
- Tough times in 2008, except for Exxon Mobil
- Analyzing General Motors’ free cash flow
- Apple: Cash flow data helps unravel accounting issues
- The danger of free cash flow
- Manage company cash flow
