# Aon plc (AON) FY2026 Q1 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: Aon plc (AON)
- Period: 2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31
- Filing: Q1 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-05-01, accession number 0001628280-26-029322
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/aon/fy2026-q1-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/aon-fy2026-q1-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jan 1, 2026 through Mar 31, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations. Beginning cash: Dec 31, 2025. Ending cash: Mar 31, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Dec 31, 2025**: 8,573,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Operating activities**: 430,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Net income**: 1,239,000,000 US dollars
- **Gain from sales of businesses**: negative 20,000,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation of fixed assets**: 46,000,000 US dollars
- **Amortization and impairment of intangible assets**: 152,000,000 US dollars
- **Share-based compensation expense**: 82,000,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: negative 49,000,000 US dollars
- **Other, net**: 1,000,000 US dollars
- **Receivables, net**: negative 905,000,000 US dollars
- **Accounts payable and accrued liabilities**: negative 656,000,000 US dollars
- **Accelerating Aon United Program liabilities**: 14,000,000 US dollars
- **Current income taxes**: 243,000,000 US dollars
- **Pension, other postretirement and postemployment liabilities**: negative 14,000,000 US dollars
- **Other assets and liabilities**: 297,000,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: 999,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Proceeds from investments**: 17,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of investments**: negative 19,000,000 US dollars
- **Net sale (purchases) of short-term investments - non fiduciary**: 1,363,000,000 US dollars
- **Acquisition of businesses, net of cash and funds held on behalf of clients**: negative 296,000,000 US dollars
- **Sale of businesses, net of cash and funds held on behalf of clients**: 1,000,000 US dollars
- **Capital expenditures**: negative 67,000,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 441,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Share repurchase**: negative 500,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from issuance of shares**: 25,000,000 US dollars
- **Cash paid for employee taxes on withholding shares**: negative 93,000,000 US dollars
- **Commercial paper issuances, net of repayments**: 0 US dollars
- **Repayment of debt**: negative 593,000,000 US dollars
- **Increase (decrease) in fiduciary liabilities, net of fiduciary receivables**: 955,000,000 US dollars
- **Cash dividends to shareholders**: negative 162,000,000 US dollars
- **Redeemable and nonredeemable noncontrolling interests, and other financing activities**: negative 73,000,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 1,644,000,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **financing gross reconciliation**: 1,421,000,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **investing gross reconciliation**: 1,381,000,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: negative 97,000,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Mar 31, 2026**: 9,464,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Cash sources and uses**: 10,002,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: 891,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 0.35×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- **Operating cash flow**: 430,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 67,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 363,000,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

### Chart connections

- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income exceeds operating cash. The diagram allocates $430.00M of net income directly to operating cash and $809.00M to the adjustment junction, where it combines with other additions to reconcile deductions. This is an accounting presentation, not a tracing of cash receipts.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: 430,000,000 US dollars minus 67,000,000 US dollars equals 363,000,000 US dollars.