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What (who) is cash flow - definition

MOVEMENT OF MONEY INTO OR OUT OF A BUSINESS, PROJECT, OR FINANCIAL PRODUCT
Cashflow; Cash flows; Net cash flow; Cash Flow; Cash-flow; Company's cash flow; Cashflows

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also cashflow
The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it. (BUSINESS)
A French-based pharmaceuticals company ran into cash-flow problems and faced liquidation.
N-UNCOUNT
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¦ noun the total amount of money passing into and out of a business, especially as affecting liquidity.
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Wikipedia

Cash flow

A cash flow is a real or virtual movement of money:

  • a cash flow in its narrow sense is a payment (in a currency), especially from one central bank account to another; the term 'cash flow' is mostly used to describe payments that are expected to happen in the future, are thus uncertain and therefore need to be forecast with cash flows;
  • a cash flow is determined by its time t, nominal amount N, currency CCY and account A; symbolically CF = CF(t,N,CCY,A).
  • it is however popular to use cash flow in a less specified sense describing (symbolic) payments into or out of a business, project, or financial product.

Cash flows are narrowly interconnected with the concepts of value, interest rate and liquidity. A cash flow that shall happen on a future day tN can be transformed into a cash flow of the same value in t0. This transformation process is known as discounting, and it takes into account the time value of money by adjusting the nominal amount of the cash flow based on the prevailing interest rates at the time.

Examples of use of cash flow
1. The state company "doesn‘t have a cash flow because it‘s UkrGazEnergo that controls all cash flow from sales," she said. «
2. The cash flow that a business generates minus the part it reinvests is called free cash flow.
3. Nor did ICL disappoint in cash flow from operations, which rose to $474 million, or 2.6 times its cash flow in the corresponding period of 2007.
4. "Cash flow and margins also reached record levels."
5. Some won‘t, mainly highly leveraged companies with weak cash flow.