How are the 3 Financial Statements Linked? (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow) and why it matters!

Net Income & Retained Earnings
Net income from the bottom of the income statement links to the balance sheet and cash flow statement.  On the balance sheet, it feeds into retained earnings and on the cash flow statement, it is the starting point for the cash from operations section.

PP&E, Depreciation, and Capex 
​Depreciation and other capitalized expenses on the income statement need to be added back to net income to calculate the cash flow from operations. Depreciation flows out of the balance sheet from Property Plant and Equipment (PP&E) onto the income statement as an expense, and then gets added back in the cash flow statement.
For this section of linking the 3 financial statements, it’s important to build a separate depreciation schedule.
Capital expenditures add to the PP&E account on the balance sheet and flow through cash from investing on the cash flow statement.

Working Capital
Modeling net working capital can sometimes be confusing.  Changes in current assets and current liabilities on the balance sheet are related to revenues and expenses on the income statement but need to be adjusted on the cash flow statement to reflect the actual amount of cash received or spent by the business.  In order to do this, we create a separate section that calculates the changes in net working capital.

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