Describe why accounting profits & cash flows are not the similar thing.
Stock value based on future cash flows, their timing, and their riskiness. Profit calculations do not assume these three factors. Profit, as described in accounting, is merely the difference between sales revenue and expenses. It is true that more profits are normally better than less profit, but while the pursuit of short-term profits affects adversely the size of future cash flows, their timing, or their riskiness, then these profit maximization efforts are harmful to the firm.