Accounting Cash Flow Makeover

The Accounting Statement of Cash Flows received a makeover as FASB updated the treatment of eight different cash flows. As you will read, whether the updates provide any meaningful change is not clear, as two Accounting professors interviewed have differing opinions on the update. Unfortunately, FASB did not address what we feel is a glaring weakness in that interest expense is still considered an operating cash flow, rather than being included correctly in the financing cash flow section.