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cash flow

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Also known as cash-flow

movement of money into or out of a business, project, or financial product

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Cash flow, in general, refers to payments made into or out of a business, project, or financial product. It can also refer more specifically to a real or virtual movement of money.

Cash flow, in its narrow sense, is a payment (in a currency), especially from one central bank account to another. The term 'cash flow' is mostly used to describe payments that are expected to happen in the future, are thus uncertain, and therefore need to be forecast with cash flows.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cash flow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.