Cash flow statement OT notes; finance cost and interest paid

There's an immense difference between Finance cost which is added back And Interest paid which is further deducted

In the original question, finance/interest is mentioned only once in the SOPL extract. How did they get the idea that it was paid back? There's no where in the question that mentions interest being paid.

When there is no opening and closing interest then the finance cost is deemed to have been the same as interest cost... Usually in question the interest paid and finance cost aren't the same .. Thus that proforma.

Hi, Regardless of whether the finance cost and the interest paid are the same, the finance cost will always be added back to the profit before tax so that we can work back to the profit from operations before adjusting this to calculate the cash generated from operations. We then need to deduct the interest paid to get to the cash flow from operating activities. Thanks

Hello, Trying to add to my monthly management accounts file a monthly statement of cash-flow. I struggle to extract the correct numbers from my TB. I am getting a difference on each month. Applying all this in real life is more complicated that I though. There are so many nominals and I am trying to guess what am I adding that I shouldn't or what am I missing. HELP! Stock is not the stock, I also have Stock in transit and Stock write offs( which is a nominal I am using on all stock taken/movements for the year and at the end of the year I will adjust the P&L with the balance as I have created a provision at the begin of the year, should I take this nominal into consideration or not? Debtors, I have the control a/c but I also have the provision created for the bad debts, would I take the movements of this nominal into consideration? Thanks and apologies for the long post.

Hi, Sorry, but I'm here to answer questions specific to the ACCA FR exam and not answer work related questions. You could post the question on the other forum and see if any students are prepared to answer it for you. My only suggestion would be to possibly look at EBITDA as a close approximation of the cash generated each month. I hope you find your answer. Thanks