Not necessarily. Let's say a company sold services on December 20th, 2009 for $50 million. If they sold these services on account, the journal entry would be:
Accounts Receivable $50 million
Service Revenues $50 million
This company would have $50 million in Revenues but $0 in cash flow for 2009.
If they payment is received in 2010, it would look like this:
Cash $50 million
Accounts Receivable $50 million.
Here they would have (if this is their only entry) $50 million of cash flow and $0 of revenue.
It is the difference between cash and accrual basis accounting.
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