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A NOTE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REPORTED CASH FLOW MEASURES, RATIOS AND THEIR ACCRUAL COUNTERPARTS

A NOTE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REPORTED CASH FLOW MEASURES, RATIOS AND THEIR ACCRUAL... This note focuses on information redundancy of cash flow measures reported in and financial ratios derived directly from Cash Flow Statements. Previous research utilised recomputed, “traditional” and “refined”, measures to proxy for cash flow. Comovements are derived amongst various earnings and cash flow key variable measures, select financial ratios and changes in financial ratios. Key variables' results support the notion that reported cash flows are correlated with funds flow and earnings. However, reported cash flows relative to funds flow are less correlated with most of their accrual based counterparts. Cash flows thus have potential to provide new and non‐redundant information relative to funds and accruals. Also, the incremental benefit of reported, relative to reconstructed cash flow measures is apparent. In light of the above, the merit of cash flow for the specific decision context of identifying suspended firms is investigated. Cash flow data in this context is found to be as useful as, but not superior to, comparable accruals data. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Accounting & Finance Wiley

A NOTE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REPORTED CASH FLOW MEASURES, RATIOS AND THEIR ACCRUAL COUNTERPARTS

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Wiley
Copyright
© 1995 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
ISSN
0810-5391
eISSN
1467-629X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-629X.1995.tb00275.x
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Abstract

This note focuses on information redundancy of cash flow measures reported in and financial ratios derived directly from Cash Flow Statements. Previous research utilised recomputed, “traditional” and “refined”, measures to proxy for cash flow. Comovements are derived amongst various earnings and cash flow key variable measures, select financial ratios and changes in financial ratios. Key variables' results support the notion that reported cash flows are correlated with funds flow and earnings. However, reported cash flows relative to funds flow are less correlated with most of their accrual based counterparts. Cash flows thus have potential to provide new and non‐redundant information relative to funds and accruals. Also, the incremental benefit of reported, relative to reconstructed cash flow measures is apparent. In light of the above, the merit of cash flow for the specific decision context of identifying suspended firms is investigated. Cash flow data in this context is found to be as useful as, but not superior to, comparable accruals data.

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Accounting & FinanceWiley

Published: May 1, 1995

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