Cash Flow Information

4. Cash Flow Information

The Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows provides information about changes in cash and cash equivalents. Highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less when acquired are classified as cash equivalents.

The "Net (gain) on asset sales" in net cash provided by operating activities on the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows includes before-tax gains from the sale of some Upstream Canadian, U.K. and other producing properties and assets, and the sale of U.S. service stations in 2011; from the sale of some Upstream Gulf of Mexico and other producing properties, the sale of U.S. service stations and other Downstream assets and investments and the formation of a Chemical joint venture in 2010; and from the sale of Downstream assets and investments and producing properties in the Upstream in 2009. These gains are reported in "Other income" on the Consolidated Statement of Income.

Included in "Proceeds associated with sales of subsidiaries, property, plant, and equipment, and sales and returns of investments" in 2011 is a $3.6 billion deposit for a potential asset sale.


	2011		2010		2009
	(millions of dollars)

Cash payments for interest	$	557	$	703	$	820

Cash payments for income taxes	$	27,254	$	18,941	$	15,427

- Definition

The entire disclosure for supplemental cash flow activities, including cash, noncash, and part noncash transactions, for the period. Noncash is defined as information about all investing and financing activities of an enterprise during a period that affect recognized assets or liabilities but that do not result in cash receipts or cash payments in the period. "Part noncash" refers to that portion of the transaction not resulting in cash receipts or cash payments in the period.

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