A firm pays $100 in period 1 to produce some goods. It sells those goods for $150 in period 2 but does not collect payment from its customers until period 3. Calculate the cash flows to the firm in each period by completing the following table. Do the resulting values for net cash flow in each period make sense?
Period: 1 2 3
Sales
Change in accounts receivable
Cost of goods sold
Change in inventories
Net cash flow