# Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) FY2024 YTD Q3 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)
- Period: 2024-01-01 to 2024-09-30
- Filing: Q3 FY2024 10-Q, filed 2024-10-24, accession number 0001628280-24-043486
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/tsla/fy2024-ytd-q3-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/tsla-fy2024-ytd-q3-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Jan 1, 2024 through Sep 30, 2024. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations. Beginning cash: Dec 31, 2023. Ending cash: Sep 30, 2024. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Dec 31, 2023**: 17,189,000,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Operating activities**: 10,109,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Prepaid expenses and other assets**: negative 2,639,000,000 US dollars
- **Operating lease vehicles**: negative 82,000,000 US dollars
- **Net income**: 4,821,000,000 US dollars
- **Stock-based compensation**: 1,420,000,000 US dollars
- **Accounts receivable**: 144,000,000 US dollars
- **Deferred revenue**: 231,000,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation, amortization and impairment**: 3,872,000,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: 418,000,000 US dollars
- **Inventory and purchase commitments write-downs**: 247,000,000 US dollars
- **Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities**: 2,504,000,000 US dollars
- **Foreign currency transaction net unrealized loss (gain)**: 197,000,000 US dollars
- **Non-cash interest and other operating activities**: 83,000,000 US dollars
- **Inventory**: negative 1,107,000,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 11,184,000,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Purchases of solar energy systems, net of sales**: negative 6,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from maturities of investments**: 17,975,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of investments**: negative 20,797,000,000 US dollars
- **Purchases of property and equipment excluding finance leases, net of sales**: negative 8,556,000,000 US dollars
- **Business combinations, net of cash acquired**: 0 US dollars
- **Proceeds from sales of investments**: 200,000,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: 2,868,000,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Repayments of debt**: negative 1,783,000,000 US dollars
- **Principal payments on finance leases**: negative 291,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from issuances of debt**: 4,360,000,000 US dollars
- **Distributions paid to noncontrolling interests in subsidiaries**: negative 76,000,000 US dollars
- **Payments for buy-outs of noncontrolling interests in subsidiaries**: negative 124,000,000 US dollars
- **Debt issuance costs**: negative 6,000,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from exercises of stock options and other stock issuances**: 788,000,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 9,116,000,000 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**: 5,148,000,000 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**: 29,359,000,000 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 8,000,000 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Sep 30, 2024**: 18,974,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, including disposal groups and discontinued operations
- **Cash sources and uses**: 30,166,000,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: 1,785,000,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 2.10×. 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**: 10,109,000,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 8,556,000,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 1,553,000,000 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 enters operating cash directly in the reconciliation. The adjustment junction contributes the remaining $5.29B after reconciling the other positive and negative adjustments. These connections depict an accounting reconciliation, not traced 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: 10,109,000,000 US dollars minus 8,556,000,000 US dollars equals 1,553,000,000 US dollars.