NI Water: Reconciliation of Operating Profit to Cash Flow, 2020-2021

2020-2021 financial data from Northern Ireland Water's Annual Information Return. The dataset, published by the Government Digital Service, contains a regulatory accounting table reconciling operating profit to net cash flow from operating activities. It is provided under the UK Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between reported profit and actual cash generation in a public utility based on the accounting reconciliation described.
• Benchmark financial performance and cash flow metrics for water utilities based on regulatory account data.
• Model cash flow from operating activities using reported profit figures and adjustments.
• Study the structure and components of regulatory financial reporting for government-owned entities.

Strengths

• Data covers two consecutive fiscal years (2020 and 2021), allowing for year-over-year comparison.
• Sourced from an official regulatory document (Annual Information Return), providing authoritative figures.
• Published under a permissive open government license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Northern Ireland Water, via Government Digital Service and eu_open_data.

Collection Method

Extracted from the NI Water Annual Information Return, Table 29.

Time Range

2020-2021

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom