EXXON MOBIL CORP | 2013 | FY |

5. Cash Flow Information

The Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows provides information about changes in cash and cash equivalents. Highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less when acquired are classified as cash equivalents.

The “Net (gain) on asset sales” in net cash provided by operating activities on the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows includes before-tax gains from the sale of a partial interest in Iraq, the sale of Downstream affiliates in the Caribbean and the sale of service stations in 2013; the Japan restructuring, the sale of an Upstream property in Angola, exchanges of Upstream properties, the sale of U.S. service stations, and the sale of the Downstream affiliates in Malaysia and Switzerland in 2012; and from the sale of some Upstream Canadian, U.K. and other producing properties and assets, and the sale of U.S. service stations in 2011. These gains are reported in “Other income” on the Consolidated Statement of Income.

In 2012, the Corporation's interest in a cost company was redeemed. As part of the redemption, a variable note due in 2035 issued by Mobil Services (Bahamas) Ltd. was assigned to a consolidated ExxonMobil affiliate. This note is no longer classified as third party long-term debt. This assignment did not result in a “Reduction in long-term debt” on the Statement of Cash Flows.

In 2012, ExxonMobil completed asset exchanges, primarily noncash transactions, of approximately $1 billion. This amount is not included in the “Sales of subsidiaries, investments, and property, plant and equipment” or the “Additions to property, plant and equipment” lines on the Statement of Cash Flows.

In 2011, included in “Proceeds associated with sales of subsidiaries, property, plant and equipment, and sales and returns of investments” is a $3.6 billion deposit for an asset that was sold in 2012.

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