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AI and Cash Flow Bridge Builder: Indirect Method Helper
AI can build the indirect-method cash flow bridge from a balance sheet diff, but the controller must verify every reconciling item.
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- 1The premise
- 2cash flow
- 3indirect method
- 4bridge
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Section 1
The premise
AI can take a beginning and ending balance sheet plus an income statement and produce a draft indirect-method cash flow bridge with reconciling items called out.
What AI does well here
- Compute working capital changes by line
- Surface non-cash items that need controller-supplied detail
What AI cannot do
- Know which 'other' bucket on the balance sheet was a non-cash reclass
- Tie the result to the bank statement
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