Profit Vs Cash Flow: An Example Pristine, a leader in financial training, sells books for the CFA Certification. For printing the books, it borrows papers worth $3,00,000 on credit for 4 months in January 2009. It takes approximately 1 month to print the book and another one month to sell them to the students. By 31st March , 2009, Pristine had sold all the books and received $10,00,000 in cash collection. 1. How shall be the profit of Pristine for FY2009 if no other transaction has taken place. 2. What shall be the cash balance of Pristine at the end of FY2009 if no other transaction had taken place.
Accounting Profit and Real Cash inflow may not be same for a period