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Historic statements
File: MCFM_Skeleton.xls
ACCOUNTING SHEETS
The first schedules to be added to the model are the historic income and balance sheets. The analysis begins with up to five annual reports for the model company and the application needs to present them in a standardised form for further analysis. Companies vary their layout due to local accounting practices or presentation requirements and the purpose of the initial accounts is to establish a layout that can be used for other cases and in the forecast and other statements. As discussed in Chapter 3, we can consider all models to be templates or sources of reusable code.
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