Question

Pompeii, Inc., has sales of $46,200, costs of $23,100, depreciation expense of $2,200, and interest expense of $1,700. If the tax rate is 22 percent, what is the operating cash flow, or OCF

Answer 1

Answer:

The net operating cashflows are 18,876 dollars.

Explanation:

Operating cashflows are cashflows which an entity generates from it core operations. In other words cash flow related to investment and finance activities do not form part of an entity operaing cashflows.

So in this example interest will not be part of operating cashflows.

For more details please refer to below given calculations.

OCF

Sales       46,200

Cost         (23,100)

Tax            (4,224) (W-1)

OCF          18,876

(W-1)  Calculating profit to find tax paid

(46,200-23,100-2,200-1,700)*22%