getCashFlowStatementAsReported
View cash flow statements as reported by the company with the As Reported Cash Flow Statements API. Analyze a company's cash flows related to operations, investments, and financing directly from official reports.
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What getCashFlowStatementAsReported does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call getCashFlowStatementAsReported to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | number | — | Limit on number of results (default: 100, max: 1000) |
period | string | — | Period type (annual or quarter) |
symbol | string | — | Stock symbol |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why getCashFlowStatementAsReported is rated Low
This tool retrieves financial statements—a read-only operation with no side effects. It accesses published, historical cash flow data to support analysis and research. No data is created, modified, deleted, or executed. The worst outcome of misuse would be information gathering, not financial transactions or irreversible actions.
From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'get' and description states 'View cash flow statements' and 'Analyze'. The API retrieves and presents historical financial data from official reports without modifying, executing, or deleting any data.
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The rule that runs getCashFlowStatementAsReported safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Financial Modeling Prep, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For getCashFlowStatementAsReported, this is the rule to start with:
getCashFlowStatementAsReported is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Financial Modeling Prep, apply this rule, and every getCashFlowStatementAsReported call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getCashFlowStatementAsReported
View cash flow statements as reported by the company with the As Reported Cash Flow Statements API. Analyze a company's cash flows related to operations, investments, and financing directly from official reports. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
getCashFlowStatementAsReported accepts 3 parameters: limit, period, symbol. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getCashFlowStatementAsReported: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Financial Modeling Prep. Nothing to install.
getCashFlowStatementAsReported is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the getCashFlowStatementAsReported rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for getCashFlowStatementAsReported. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
getCashFlowStatementAsReported is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server (cfocoder/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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