Worked example · EX:advanced-statement-of-cash-flows-and-liquidity-controls/cedar-trail-restricted-cash-fx-release

Reconcile Cedar Trail's restricted cash and exchange-rate effect

Build a multi location population, eliminate an internal transfer, derive the separate exchange rate effect, and evaluate release controls.

Updated Sep 11, 2026 Review due Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Location bridge
  2. Activity and translation
  3. Release reading
Worked-example setupScope and assumptions
  • Cedar Trail and all amounts are fictional and supplied for instruction.
  • The restricted-cash population and transaction translation conclusions are supplied.
  • The internal transfer connects two accounts already included in the combined population.
Period
Year ended December 31, Year 4
Units
US dollars
Rounding
Retain full precision; display whole dollars with commas

Location bridge

Opening cash of $400,000, cash equivalents of $100,000, and restricted cash of $50,000 form a $550,000 combined population. Ending locations contain $450,000, $80,000, and $90,000, or $620,000. The restricted balances appear outside the cash caption but remain in the supplied statement population.

Activity and translation

Supported translated operating receipts of $700,000 less payments of $600,000 produce $100,000 operating cash. The indirect bridge independently reaches the same amount. Investing uses $(70,000) and financing provides $30,000, so the three sections increase cash by $60,000.

The supported opening and ending translated populations differ by $70,000. After the $60,000 activity increase, the remaining $10,000 is the exchange-rate effect. It is displayed separately, not inside operating cash flow.

A $40,000 transfer from unrestricted to restricted cash changes location but not the population. Both bank legs remain in the evidence ledger and eliminate from activity sections. The $25,000 foreign lease commencement is noncash.

Release reading

The population rollforward, direct-indirect check, internal-transfer control, and noncash exclusion all pass. Release still depends on source completeness, the supplied restriction and rate conclusions, cross-surface disclosure and digital ties, and authorization. A tied endpoint cannot grant those judgments.

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The curriculum loader recomputed this example before it entered the site build. Expand any structured input to inspect the stated facts.

direct operating payments
1 field
Inspect data
{
  "translated_operating_payments": 600000
}
direct operating receipts
1 field
Inspect data
{
  "translated_customer_and_other_receipts": 700000
}
ending cash
450,000
ending cash equivalents
80,000
ending restricted cash
90,000
financing cash flows
1 field
Inspect data
{
  "translated_financing_receipts_net": 30000
}
fx effect
10,000
indirect adjustments
1 field
Inspect data
{
  "noncash_and_timing_adjustments": 20000
}
internal population transfers
2 fields
Inspect data
{
  "restricted_location": 40000,
  "unrestricted_location": -40000
}
investing cash flows
1 field
Inspect data
{
  "translated_investing_payments": -70000
}
net income
80,000
noncash activities
1 field
Inspect data
{
  "foreign_lease_commencement": 25000
}
opening cash
400,000
opening cash equivalents
100,000
opening restricted cash
50,000
reported direct operating cash flow
100,000
reported ending cash population
620,000
reported financing cash flow
30,000
reported indirect operating cash flow
100,000
reported investing cash flow
-70,000
reported net change before fx
60,000

Recomputed result

Values recomputed by the curriculum loader
MeasureValue
acquisition net cash flow0
actual ending cash population620,000
cash population difference0
direct indirect difference0
direct operating cash flow100,000
disposal net cash flow0
expected ending cash population620,000
financing cash flow30,000
fx effect10,000
indirect operating cash flow100,000
internal transfer sum0
investing cash flow-70,000
net change before fx60,000
noncash activity total25,000
opening cash population550,000