HELP with Finance HW?

I need to dentify whether each of the following items increases or decreases cash flow:

Increase in Accounts Receivable:
Increase in notes payable:
Depreciation Expense:
Increase in investments:
Decrease in accounts payable:
Decrease in prepaid expenses:
Increase in inventory:
Dividend payment:
Increase in accrued expenses:


Am i right or wrong!!!!????



Increase in Accounts Receivable: Increases

Increase in notes payable: Increases

Depreciation Expense: Decreases

Increase in investments: Increases

Decrease in accounts payable: Increases

Decrease in prepaid expenses: Decreases

Increase in inventory: Increases

Dividend payment: Decreases

Increase in accrued expenses: Decreases



Can you correct me plzzz????

thank you guys now i understand thanks for explaining me.

Review it, again...

Conceptually, on the Statement of Cash Flows,
increases in cash are brought by-
...decreases in noncash assets, and
...increases in liabilities;
and
decreases in cash are brought by-
...increases in noncash assets, and
...decreases in liabilities

Therefore, the following provides/increases cash-
...Increase in notes payable (a liability)
...Decrease in prepaid expenses (a noncash asset)
...Increase in accrued expenses (a liability)

The following uses/decreases cash-
...Increase in Accounts Receivable (a noncash asset)
...Increase in investments (a noncash asset)
...Decrease in accounts payable (a liability)
...Increase in inventory (a noncash asset)
...Dividend payment (a direct use of cash)

Depreciation Expense, actually, neither increases nor decreases cash, but it is added back to Net Income, in the Statement of Cash Flows, above "Adjustment to reconcile to net cash provided by operating activities"

Phil
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Increase in Accounts Receivable - none or decrease, if ar goes up that means people owe you money and havent paid yet...no cash in hand.

Increase in notes payable: increase, you've issued bonds or borrowed money...you received cash.

Depreciation Expense: none - no cash is moving with dep.

Increase in investments: decrease or depends, assuming you've invested in something, you have to pay cash to buy it, so cash goes out, income comes in later if they pay dividends or interest.

Decrease in accounts payable: if AP goes down that means your paying off bills so money is going out.

Decrease in prepaid expenses: none, prepaids represent cash out from 'an earlier time' it's a journal entry theoretically its a decrease b/c cash has already been paid.

Dividend payment: decreas if you're paying the dividend, increase if you're receiveing it.

Increase in accrued expenses; beats the hell out of me, I forgot what this means....buest guess none b/c accrued expenses probably have not been paid yet.