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Amgen's CFO was boosted by almost $269 million because a company gets a tax deduction when employees exercise non-qualified stock options. As such, almost 8% of Amgen's CFO is not due to operations and not necessarily recurring, so the amount of the 8% should be removed from CFO. Although Amgen's cash flow statement is exceptionally legible, some companies bury this tax benefit in a footnote.
To review the next two adjustments that must be made to reported CFO, we will consider Verizon's statement of cash flows below.
2. Unusual changes to working capital accounts (receivables, inventories and payables) (Refer to #2 on Verizon's CFO statement.) Although Verizon's statement has many lines, notice that reported CFO is derived from net income with the same two sets of add backs we explained above: non-cash expenses are added back to net income and changes to operating accounts are added to or subtracted from it:
Notice that a change in accounts payable contributed more than $2.6 billion to reported CFO. In other words, Verizon created more than $2.6 billion in additional operating cash in 2003 by holding onto vendor bills rather than paying them. It is not unusual for payables to increase as revenue increases, but if payables increase at a faster rate than expenses, then the company effectively creates cash flow by "stretching out" payables to vendors. If these cash inflows are abnormally high, removing them from CFO is recommended because they are probably temporary. Specifically, the company could pay the vendor bills in January, immediately after the end of the fiscal year. If it
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