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An international organisation fostering international monetary and financial cooperation, the Bank serves as a bank for central banks and also hosts a number of international organisations.  
The movement of cash in or out of a business, a project or a financial instrument in a particular period under review.


Customers are exclusively central banks and international organisations.


It was established by agreement between the parties (plus Switzerland) to arrangements after World War I for payment of reparations by Germany to the principal allied victors. Its mandate and membership was extended and it now a principal hub of cooperation between central banks and non-central-bank bank supervisors generally.
The cash flow for a given period may differ from the profit or loss for the same period because of:


#Items in cash flow which are not part of profit or loss.  For example capital expenditure or the collection of trade debtors arising and recognised in prior periods; and
#Items in profit or loss which are not cash flows, such as depreciation, amortisation, or making accruals.


It has 60 central banks as its members.
 
Cash flow is sometimes written ''cashflow''.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Bank of England]]
* [[Accrual]]
* [[Bank supervision]]
* [[Amortisation]]
* [[Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System]]
* [[Cash]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Cash conversion cycle]]
* [[European Central Bank]]
* [[CertICM]]
* [[Markets Committee]]
* [[Depreciation]]
* [[Free cash flow]]
* [[Incremental cash flows]]
* [[Profit]]
 
 
===Other links===
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/9020 Students: Cash in, The Treasurer, May 2013]
 
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Cash_management]]
[[Category:Liquidity_management]]

Revision as of 11:47, 21 May 2017

(CF).

The movement of cash in or out of a business, a project or a financial instrument in a particular period under review.


The cash flow for a given period may differ from the profit or loss for the same period because of:

  1. Items in cash flow which are not part of profit or loss. For example capital expenditure or the collection of trade debtors arising and recognised in prior periods; and
  2. Items in profit or loss which are not cash flows, such as depreciation, amortisation, or making accruals.


Cash flow is sometimes written cashflow.


See also


Other links

Students: Cash in, The Treasurer, May 2013

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