The Study on Application Value of Cash Flow Information Connotation in Financial Early-Warning

Since the cash flow information can be applied well in the evaluation of enterprise´s financial situation, In this paper, the cash profit, which is the information connotation of cash flow, is a basis of financial evaluation index system and main criteria to define the distress companies. Two early warning models based on cash profit and traditional accounting profit separately are set up by logical regression and factor analysis methods. Empirical results show that the cash profit model is superior to the traditional one and cash flow information connotation has application value on the financial early-warning by comparing forecasting effects of models.