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Cash flow
9 guides in Finabase Learn
- Capital allocation: how management spends cash, and how to judge it The five uses of corporate cash, a worked look at where Apple’s fiscal 2025 cash went, how to judge buyback execution, and the filings that reveal management quality.
- Capital expenditure (capex) Cash a company spends on long-lived assets such as buildings, equipment and software, shown in investing cash flows.
- Cash flow The net amount of cash moving into and out of a business over a period, reported as operating, investing and financing flows.
- Cash flow statement The financial statement that reconciles net income to the actual change in cash through operating, investing and financing activities.
- Depreciation Spreading the cost of a tangible asset such as equipment over its useful life as a yearly non-cash expense.
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) A valuation method that estimates what a business is worth today by discounting its expected future cash flows.
- Free cash flow (FCF) Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures: the cash a business generates that is left for owners and lenders.
- How to read the Finabase financials tab A walkthrough of a company’s financials tab in Finabase: the annual and quarterly views, the three statement cards, the revenue flow diagram and calendar-quarter labels.
- Operating cash flow Cash generated by a company's normal business operations, the first section of the cash flow statement.
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