Optmization of Treasury
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3 - Any increase in liability involves a cash receipt.<br />
4 - Any decrease in assets involves a cash receipt.<br />
5 - Any charge involves a disbursement.<br />
6 - Any product involves a cash receipt.<br />
But these implicit assumptions are patently unrealistic.<br />
2 - THE LIMITS TO THE ASSIMILATION OF ACCOUNTING FLOWS TO CASH FLOWS.<br />
The causes <strong>of</strong> the gap between accounting and cash flows result from the implicit assumptions. There are three:<br />
Firstly, the flows recorded by the General Ledger do not match all transactions between the company and its<br />
environment.<br />
Then there is regulation time.<br />
Finally, the various results that a company may release its operations do not necessarily cause body<br />
movements.<br />
2.1 - FLOW ACCOUNTING AND MONETARY EXCHANGE WITH THIRD PARTIES.<br />
Flows recorded by the General Ledger are not all exchanges between the company and its environment. A job or a<br />
load do not necessarily give rise to a disbursement; similarly, a resource or a product do translate not always by a<br />
cash receipt.<br />
(a) Funds applied and Funds received do not necessarily correspond to cash receipt and disbursement flows.<br />
The changes that affect the balance sheet <strong>of</strong> a company can have two origins: they may be the result, in the first<br />
place, <strong>of</strong> transactions between the company and a third part (customers, suppliers, bankers, etc.). In this case, Funds<br />
Applied (such as acquisition <strong>of</strong> assets, debts, etc.) and Funds Received (such as capital increase by contribution <strong>of</strong><br />
money, credits, etc.) necessarily imply INFLOWS and OUTFLOWS. Secondly, the variations <strong>of</strong> certain balance sheet<br />
items may only be the result <strong>of</strong> a game <strong>of</strong> accounting entries. Funds Applied and Received have therefore no direct<br />
monetary consideration: it is the case <strong>of</strong> depreciation operations, establishment <strong>of</strong> provisions, revaluation <strong>of</strong> assets,<br />
etc. These resources result from accounting flows and non-misleading no cash flow that would alter the amount <strong>of</strong><br />
cash.<br />
(b) Expenses and products do not necessarily correspond to cash receipt and disbursement flows.<br />
Can be distinguished in this regard, the cash flows <strong>of</strong> operating non-monetary operation flows. In the case <strong>of</strong><br />
depreciation, for example, credited to income allocations give rise to no disbursement.<br />
2.3 - TAKING INTO ACCOUNT DELAYS IN REGULATION.<br />
The reconstruction <strong>of</strong> the movements <strong>of</strong> cash requires taking account <strong>of</strong> shifts between flow <strong>of</strong> operations and cash<br />
flows related to the phenomenon <strong>of</strong> credit (credit to debtors and credit by creditors). Thus to calculate the amount<br />
<strong>of</strong> the cash receipts on sales, for example, can use the following procedure:<br />
SALES FOR THE YEAR,<br />
+ Receipts on sales from the previous year,<br />
- Credits granted on sales <strong>of</strong> this fiscal year and not yet expired at the end <strong>of</strong> the latter.<br />
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