IAS 7 · Workpapers (Step 4 of 5)
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IAS 7 Statement of Cash Flows — wording before IFRS 18Applicable today
Applies to annual periods beginning before January 1, 2027.
Cash flow classification matrix: Dividends paid
Fifteen transactions to classify: operating, investing, financing or outside the statement
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Objective
Section brief
- What to document
- The engagement, its scope and the working mode chosen.
- Why
- A workpaper answers one precise question: framing it avoids off-topic work.
- How
- Read the objective and the assignment, then choose the mode (guided, semi-guided, professional).
- Expected result
- You know which question the workpaper must settle, and for which reporting date.
- Your role
- Preparer of the IAS 7 workpaper
- Level
- Foundation
- Estimated time
- ≈ 25 min
- Progress
- 0 / 4 steps done (review excluded)
Context
Lunadis Équipements SAS (fictitious entity) distributes and services handling trucks. Its accountant is preparing the first statement of cash flows for 20X5 from the list of cash transactions. You help classify each transaction.
Assignment
Cash flow classification matrix
Purpose of the workpaper
For each transaction of the period (one instance per transaction), describe the facts and the amount paid or received, check whether it is a cash flow, apply the definitions and examples of the three activities, split a single payment into its components where needed, apply the entity's method for interest, dividends and taxes and the conditions for net presentation, then justify the classification and the disclosures.
Questions of the file covered by this workpaper
- Classify the fifteen transactions and identify those that do not appear in the statement.
- Split the loan instalment and the rent between interest and principal.
Documents in the file
Open the documents to pick out the relevant information.