Comments on: You Can’t Spend Earnings http://dividendsvalue.com/1238/you-cant-spend-earnings/ Dividend Investing & Value Investing For A Superior Portfolio Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:56:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Living Off Dividends & Passive Income http://dividendsvalue.com/1238/you-cant-spend-earnings/comment-page-1/#comment-2786 Living Off Dividends & Passive Income Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:49:00 +0000 http://dividendsvalue.com/1238/you-cant-spend-earnings/#comment-2786 Dividends Rock! Dividends Rock!

]]> By: Dividends4Life http://dividendsvalue.com/1238/you-cant-spend-earnings/comment-page-1/#comment-2173 Dividends4Life Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:47:00 +0000 http://dividendsvalue.com/1238/you-cant-spend-earnings/#comment-2173 Of all the required financials, the greatest chance of an error is on the cash flow statement since you are undoing accrual accounting. If the goal is to increase operating cash flow, you could miss-classify expenses as PP&E. Post-SOX, this would be much more difficult to pull off given the higher degree of auditor review. <br/><br/>Best Wishes,<br/>D4L Of all the required financials, the greatest chance of an error is on the cash flow statement since you are undoing accrual accounting. If the goal is to increase operating cash flow, you could miss-classify expenses as PP&E. Post-SOX, this would be much more difficult to pull off given the higher degree of auditor review.

Best Wishes,
D4L

]]> By: Thicken My Wallet http://dividendsvalue.com/1238/you-cant-spend-earnings/comment-page-1/#comment-2171 Thicken My Wallet Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:45:00 +0000 http://dividendsvalue.com/1238/you-cant-spend-earnings/#comment-2171 Agreed but even companies have figured out how to play with cash flow from operations:<br/><br/>http://www.canadianbusiness.com/columnists/al_rosen/article.jsp?content=20070312_85343_85343 Agreed but even companies have figured out how to play with cash flow from operations:

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/columnists/al_rosen/article.jsp?content=20070312_85343_85343

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