flow from

flow from (something)

1. To stream or pour out of some thing or place. I'm no plumber, but all of the water flowing from that pipe doesn't seem like a good sign.
2. To arise from or be triggered by something. I don't know, we started chatting, and the conversation just flowed from there—I looked up and two hours had passed!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

flow from something

to run out from something. The blood flowed from the wound on his hand and stained his shirt. The oil flowed from the cracked engine and made a mess on the floor.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

flow from

v.
To originate in and develop from something; stem from: The second paragraph does not flow from the first in logical sequence. Many interesting discussions flowed from our initial conversation.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • flow from (something)
  • pour
  • pour into
  • pour into (something or some place)
  • stream in
  • screwage
  • pour on
  • cherry ripe
  • water power
  • pour in
References in periodicals archive
Standard & Poor's refers to the measure as free operating cash flow and equates it to cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures (Standard and Poor's Encyclopedia of Analytical Adjustments for Corporate Entities, Jul.
Cash flow from customers equals revenues minus the change in accounts receivable.
Cash flow from operating activities omits depreciation and similar charges because they designate cost allocations that take the cost of the asset and spread it over the asset's life in a rational and systematic order.
When users compute free cash flow, they generally subtract the cash flow for purchases of property, plant, and equipment--a line often found in the investing activities section of the cash flow statement--from the cash flow from operating activities.
Free cash flow and business combinations
These sufficiency and efficiency ratios provide additional information (over traditional financial ratios) about the relationship between cash flow from operations and other important operating variables.
Cash flows: another approach to ratio analysis
The important point is that cash flow from operations, just like income from operations, can include a diverse mix of transactions representing a variety of unusual events.
It normally is defined as cash flow from operations less all dividend payments.
The ability of the company to pay all dividends is reflected by cash flow from operations divided by total dividend payments.
A suggested alternative measure of the quality of income ratio is cash flow from operations before interest and taxes divided by income before interest, taxes and depreciation.
Developing ratios for effective cash flow statement analysis
The indirect method starts with net income and adjusts it for revenue and expense items that were not the result of operating cash transactions in the current period, to reconcile it to net cash flow from operating activities.
Preparing and presenting statements of cash flows
The SEC observer expressed concern this consensus might be analogized to similar investments in collateralized borrowing structures when (1) the underlying collateral is of a lesser credit quality than that defined in this consensus or (2) the cash flow from the underlying collateral cannot reasonably be estimated.
Collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs)