Question

The 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

Answer 1

Answer:

$1,311,000

Explanation:

The computation of the operating cash flow is shown below:

As we know that

Operating cash flow = Cash flow from assets + capital spending - change in net working capital

where,

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

Now  

Cashflow to Stakeholders

= Dividends paid - New issuance of the equity

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

= $160,000

So,  

Cashflow from Assets is

= -$110,000 + $160,000

= $50,000

Now  

Operating cashflow is

= $50,000 + $1,320,000 + (-$59,000)

= $1,311,000