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When the balance sheet does not balance

4 min readThe Tickmark desk

The fastest debugging trick in modelling costs nothing: look at the size of the imbalance before you look at anything else.

If it equals depreciation, a sign is flipped in the cash flow statement. If it equals capex, the PP&E roll-forward is not linked. If it equals net income, retained earnings is not picking it up.

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