Morgan Stanley Deck
If you could only use ONE financial statement to judge a company's health, which one and why?
Model answer
The cash flow statement. Cash generation is the closest thing to ground truth — a company survives on cash, not accounting earnings, and cash flow is the hardest statement to flatter with accrual…
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