Depreciation is charged in the Profit and Loss A/c but does not involve any cash outflow. Since the aim of the cash flow statement is to show only cash transactions, depreciation is added back to profit to neutralise its non-cash effect.
We add depreciation in order to find out operating profit before working capital changes :
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because it is an income
because depreciation is a cash expense
because depreciation being a non-cash expense
because it is given in operating activity proforma
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