Direct method worksheet – statement of cash flows will put together a working in Excel that we will use to build the statement of cash flows using the direct method. Putting together a well formatted worksheet is the most important step to being able to complete a statement of cash flows. To put a statement of cash flows worksheet together we will need a comparative balance sheet, or balance sheet numbers for the current period and the prior period. The statement of cash flows worksheet we use for the direct method will be similar to the statement of cash flows worksheet we use for the indirect method but not the same. We will include the income statement accounts for the current period when performing the statement of cash flows using the direct method.
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