A financial statement contained in the annual or quarterly report that is issued by companies and it shows the revenue a company received and expenses incurred during that period. The income statement (which used to be referred to as the profit and loss statement) shows when the revenue and expenses occurred, whereas the cash flow statement shows when the actual payment was received form the revenue and the payments where made for the expenses (which may be in the next period).
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