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CFA level1 Financial Analysis Section, Understanding Cashflow Statements

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    • chen2196
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        Hi

        Here is an example used in CFA textbook that I don’t understand.

        CFA level1 Financial Analysis Section, Understanding Cashflow Statements

        CFA level1 Financial Analysis Section, Understanding Cashflow Statements

        The explanation in the question used the first column(“12/31/2018”) as beginning balance and second column(“12/31/2017”) as ending balance and arrived at the answer B. I don’t understand why it used earlier time as ending balance and later time as beginning balance, aren’t you supposed to go the opposite way? I used first column as ending balance and second column as beginning balance and got the cash received from equipment sale as $22million. Can someone tell me who’s wrong here? Thank you very much!

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      • Zee Tan
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          You are correct, the dates of the columns should be swapped. The errata of CFA Level 1 states:

          In the table in Example 6 (page 206 of print), the second column heading should be
          12/31/2017, and the third column heading should be 12/31/2018.

          You can find the full errata for CFA Level 1 here.

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