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What is cash flow?

The meaning of cash flow: profit plus depreciation: roughly the money coming in from the business.

Cash flow: the meaning

Profit plus depreciation: roughly the money coming in from the business.

Depreciation is a cost without a payment that year, so it is added back. It is an approximation.

How to read it

Positive and stable is good. It pays back loans and funds investment.

On Nummo you find this figure in the Figures tab of every company that filed annual accounts, over the years. In the tables, a small card gives this explanation in short.

How to calculate it

profit + depreciation (in belgian annual accounts: 9904 + 630)

The item numbers follow the official format of Belgian annual accounts, which builds on the European Accounting Directive.

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