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Use the Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR corporate filings database to search for and view the...

Use the Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR corporate filings database to search for and view the annual reports on Form 10-K of Google and Yahoo.

Google: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000128877615000008/0001288776-15-000008-index.htm

Yahoo: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/000119312515066560/0001193125-15-066560-index.htm

Click on the Document Link for 10-K, In the Table of Contents, go to Item 8 Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Using information from the statement of cash flows, answer the following questions for each company:

1. Which method, direct or indirect, was used to prepare the company’s Statement of Cash Flows? How can you tell?

2. How much cash and cash equivalents did the company have on hand at the end of its most recent fiscal year?

3. What is the trend in the company’s net cash from operations over the past three years?

4. What were the significant cash flows from or used by financing activities during its most recent fiscal year?

5. What were the significant cash flows from or used by investing activities during its most recent fiscal year?

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Google December 2016

1.Indirect method of cash flow is used.As adjustments are made to net income it is clear that indrect method has been used.

2.It has $12,918 millions at the end of 2016

3.Net cash flows from operations has a increasing trends from last 3 years.

4.Significant cash flows from and used by financing activities are issue of debt and repayment of debt.

5.Significant cash flows from and used by investing activities are purchase of marketable securities and maturities and sale of marketable securities.

Yahoo December 2016

1.Indirect method of cash flow is used.As Adjustments are made to net income it is clear that indirect method has been used.

2.It has $1,119,469,000 at the end of 2016.

3.Net cash flows from operations have decresased in 2015 and incresed in 2016

4.Significant cash flows from and used by financing activities are tax withholdings related to net share settelements of restricted stock units.

5.Sigificant cash flows from and used by investing activities are purchase of marketable securities and meturities and sale of marketable securities.

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