Question

Consider the following items: (a) Decrease in accounts receivable (f) Gain on the sale of equipment (b) Issuance of common stock (g) Depreciation expense (c) Increase in interest receivable (h) Payment of dividends (d) Purchase of land (i) Decrease in utilities payable (e) Decrease in accounts payable (j) Increase in inventory How many of these items would be added to net income when using the indirect method to prepare the operating activities section of the statement of cash flows

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) Decrease in accounts receivable

(g) Depreciation expense

Explanation:

Operating activities: It involves those transactions that after net income impact the working capital. This will subtract the rise in current assets and a reduction in current liabilities, while adding the decline in current assets and a rise in current liabilities.

It will manage some adjustments in working capital. For addition, the depreciation expenses are added to the net profit and the loss on the selling of assets is added, while the benefit on the sale of assets is deducted

Based on the above explanation, the items which are to be added in the operating activities are

(a) Decrease in account receivable

(g) depreciation expense

Out of all Other items would be deducted and all other items belong to investing and financing activity