operating activities
<p>An activity that directly affects an organization's cash inflows and outflows, and determine its net income.</p> <p>Cash inflows result from sales of goods or services, sale of shares, and from income earned on investments. Cash outflows result from equipment and inventory purchases, interest and principal payments on loans, salaries, dividends, and various other costs and expenses.</p>
operating activities is in the Accounting & Auditing and Banking, Commerce, Credit, & Finance subjects.
operating activities appears in the definitions of the following terms: cash inflow, indirect method cash flow statement, cash outflow, cash flows from operating activities, and operating cash flow to sales ratio.