CA FINAL
66 Points
Joined July 2012
Hi Mohit...
Don't look at Interest & Depreciation being P and L items.... that perspective for CASH FLOW ANALYSIS is wrong....
Keep this Question in Mind..... "Is CASH coming IN or going OUT? " for all expenses and Incomes...
In your case...
Interest.... we multiply it by (1-tax rate)....because when we pay interest...CASH IS GOING OUT.....BUT when we pay Interest....we are incurring an EXPENDITURE which gives us TAX SAVINGS.... which is an indirect INFLOW. So if Your Interest amount is say Rs. 10,000 and your Tax Rate is 30%....then your CASH Outflow is Rs.10,000, also you will have a Tax Saving(Inflow) of 30% on Rs.10,000 i.e. Rs.3,000...which makes yours Net Cash Outflow Rs.7,000.... so in short......Interest*( 1 -tax rate) = 10,000*(1-0.3) = 7,000
Whereas for Depreciation we Multiply it directly by Tax Rate because of the answer to the same Question I mentioned earlier....IS CASH COMING IN OR GOING OUT?....and i Hope you know, when we account for Depreciation...THERE IS NO CASH FLOW....but there is a SAVINGS IN TAX because Depreciation is a P and L Item....therefore Depreciation * Tax Rate gives you the TAX SAVED on such Depreciation....which is an Indirect INFLOW....
The FORMULAE are just the simplified Versions of such huge Explanations...
Hope this Helps... All the BEST!!!