Question

he 2014 balance sheet of Jordan’s Golf Shop, Inc., showed long-term debt of $2.7 million, and the 2015 balance sheet showed long-term debt of $2.95 million. The 2015 income statement showed an interest expense of $140,000. The 2014 balance sheet showed $460,000 in the common stock account and $3.2 million in the additional paid-in surplus account. The 2015 balance sheet showed $500,000 and $3.5 million in the same two accounts, respectively. The company paid out $500,000 in cash dividends during 2015. Suppose you also know that the firm’s net capital spending for 2015 was $1,320,000, and that the firm reduced its net working capital investment by $59,000. What was the firm’s 2015 operating cash flow, or OCF? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, e.g., 1,234,567.)

Answer 1

Answer: $1,311,000

Explanation:

Operating Cashflow = Cashflow from Assets + Capital spending + changes in Net working capital

Cashflow from Assets = Cashflow to Creditors + Cashflow to Stakeholders

Cashflow to Creditors = Interest paid - Change in long term debt

=  140,000 - (2,950,000 - 2,700,000)

=  -$110,000

Cashflow to Stakeholders

= Dividends paid - New equity issue

= 500,000 - ((500,000 + 3,500,000) - (460,000 + 3,200,000))

= $160,000

Cashflow from Assets = -110,000 + 160,000

= $50,000

Operating cashflow = 50,000 + 1,320,000 + (-59,000)

= $1,311,000