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Let's take a look at Mattel's cash flow from operating activities and see what's what. We'll warn you - it's accrual, cruel world.
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Principles of finance ah la shmoop cash flow from operations
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All right let's do this thing Mattel Here are the
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filings were looking at the june thirty two thousand sixteen
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cash flows from operations line and we note that company
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at a loss of net income of about ninety two
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million dollars Ouch Things not going so well there with
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barbie Well but that's it counting on an accrual basis
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And of course we have an opus eleven hour video
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explaining the deets of accrual accounting Check out all of
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it if you will have no life Okay so we're
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looking at mattel from a cash flow perspective and maybe
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from that perspective or bases or foundation will find that
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mattel is more like cap cities a hidden gem producing
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actual tons of free cash All right so the next
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line is depreciation They'd appreciate a hundred nineteen million dollars
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in the six month period there And don't get confused
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when some companies produce these lines quarterly It seems like
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a lot Annualized That'd be almost a quarter billion dollars
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a year of depreciation Was the plastic stamping factory getting
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old Well maybe it was That license is paid to
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Miley or kanye or boomer for their doll lookalikes may
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be the key difference remember between amortization and depreciation is
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that amortization is used for intangible assets like licenses and
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patents while depreciation is used for tangible ones Was it
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the book value of the brands they acquired years ago
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And that now aren't worth much Well No If that
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were the case it would go in the financing section
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lower sea they're tricky but note that the depreciation line
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is positive The net income loss of ninety two million
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dollars was negative See the parentheses there around it Well
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why is depreciation positive here Well because we're trying to
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calculate cash earnings from operations in a cruel accounting you
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take into account depreciation but in cash accounting wealth appreciation
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is kind of phantom so since we subtracted it from
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the cruel world to get r ninety two million dollars
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in net income losses you have to add it back
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now in the cash accounting part that we're doing confusing
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Yes well hang in there we're confused to next line
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is amortization and just like depreciation we're gonna add back
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almost thirteen million bucks over that six month period just
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a za total sidebar here and not for anything other
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than your prurient pleasure Note that our accounting loss of
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ninety two million bucks is fully negated by are just
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adding back dna here that is we have negative ninety
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two plus hundred nineteen plus their teen equals forty and
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that's forty million dollars of cash flow production Well why
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does that matter Well lot of wall street people quote
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earnings results as one form or another of ebitda earnings
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before interest taxes depreciation and amortization Just worth noting so
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noted Move on deferred income taxes air Next we owe
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taxes We differed paying them They consumed sixty million dollars
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of cash in the six month period Likely meaning that
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we had a debt obligation of taxes which we had
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to pay off in this period And that consumed cash
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Alright next is share based compensation Okay We paid our
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top execs with stock and options Why Well we want
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them to behave as owner managers rather than just employees
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If they own a chunk of the company hopefully they'll
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act in the long term Best interest of the company
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as owners not just people taking a paycheck and running
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So we pay them with cash and stock but stock
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isn't free It has to be accounted for on an
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accrual basis Stock is usually evaluated at some average price
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for where the shares were trading around when they were
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granted There's long formula for all this that's totally not
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worth covering in this course so we'll just move on
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from it is paying in stock the same his cash
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No So you have to add back the value of
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that stock compensation by adding back the cash amount that
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was notionally deducted on an accrual basis for paying for
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it all right Next up onto net change in assets
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and liabilities Ooh this is a complex one Well let's
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start with the super basic concept Recall the deal with
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the super bowl and our friendly little lemonade stand a
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while ago Our balance sheet change dramatically after we got
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paid by the nfl for providing lemonade for the super
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bowl Right We had a mountain of cash come in
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courtesy of the kindly loving people of the nfl and
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we paid off our debts Grandma in the cup vendor
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in the five k visa card and costco over sugar
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And lemons and all that Well this event generated a
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ton of cash and a bunch of other things changed
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A cz Well the biggest changes was that archy inventory
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went down to the well basically nothing And in the
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case of the lemonade company inventory zehr generally really cheap
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They represent only a small fraction of the cost of
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goods sold like fifteen percent or fifteen cents A cop
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for you no sugar and lemons on a one dollars
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a cup sail but repurposed last it's hello barbie are
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very different The plastic expires or melts or gets damaged
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in transit And some kids just cry and cry and
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cry And mommy takes ken back to the store for
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a refund so mattel could be gearing up for a
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huge new foray into swimming plastic doll with a big
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michael phelps campaign He floats along with hope and they
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spend a hundred million dollars in cash producing ten million
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michael phelps stalls ready to sell them at twenty bucks
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a pop this summer Well that event of stocking up
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in inventory consumed a ton of cash It was a
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negative to cash production even though you now have this
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Little army of bendable michael's which by the way you
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plan to sell it double the price for which you
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produce them You hope they sell anyway but during that
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period of stocking up it was really bad for your
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cash flow But what if you didn't have to Hey
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your plastic vendors right away And what if the little
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impede on the doll could wait to be paid for
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five months Well you promised to pay whether the dolls
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sell or not You owe the money eventually but in
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greenlighting all of that work you've accumulated a huge change
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in your accounts payable in this period and you haven't
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gotten a diamond cash from selling michael's yet so you
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need capital that just works for you for some period
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of time until you can monetize michael this summer when
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the whether it's hot kids want him to swim alongside
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them in the pool before he melts into the deck
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and you sell the parents of the crying kid another
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doll very high margin hot decks in the summer you're
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praying for another scorcher So for starters note the ad
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back of three hundred fifty one million dollars in accounts
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Receivable here Att mattel That means that mattel collected in
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cash two hundred fifty one million dollars in a r
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or accounts receivable This would be from places like walmart
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amazon target while they're still alive and the other places
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mattel sells its wares but it also grew inventory See
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the two hundred eighty nine million dollars in cash cost
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to build inventories and that's a lot Maybe they really
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are doing a michael swimmer doll Finally note the mishmash
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of accounts payable accrued liabilities and income tax is payable
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all in one line Why would they jam them all
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into one line They're well Paper is cheap And computer
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server disk space is pretty much free in the cloud
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these days So why jam him in Why not break
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them out Well the answer is that the numbers were
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probably really ugly Look how much was burned in there
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in cash Three hundred eleven million dollars We're going to
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skip other for now And just look at the bottom
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line for cash from operations for mattel Yet they burned
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over two hundred forty million dollars for operating company for
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six months This is a company in trouble People go
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Type in ticker m eighty on a stock quote thing
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and you'll get that whole ugly story were it not
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for this company paying a huge fat dividend It'd be
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a really low price stock And you can only imagine
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what had happened if they ever cut their dividend groups
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They did later and here's what happened So what we
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thought was bad enough with the ninety million dollars accrual
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accounting loss when we uncover the cash from operations line
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and find a loss of two hundred forty million dollars
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it's even worse Ug in the back Your mind however
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you should be thinking this is a toy company When
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do most toys get sold Oh yeah Christmas that it
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be December is december reflected in the january one to
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june thirty time frame No So maybe things will be
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better in the back half of the year That's not
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our mission here We just went through cash flows from
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operations which is the first of three parts of cash
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flows So before we go let's do a quick review
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of the math of accounts receivable in accounts payable Let's
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just tweak the superbowl lemonade delivery slightly What if the
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nfl had said we'll pay you after you deliver the
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hundred thousand cups of lemonade according to the following formula
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you get fifty thousand dollars the day after the super
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bowl and then you get fifty thousand dollars three months
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later because we want to be sure nobody sues us
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for lousy lemonade that ruined they're doing all right Well
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we of course say yes because well they are the
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nfl which stands for no freaking lawyers How would the
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numbers then look on our income statement next quarter in
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the following quarter Well we'd recognize the cash paid this
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quarter but would recognize all a hundred grand of the
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revenues like aren't the odds really high The nfl will
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hey yes yes but we don't get the revenues for
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three months so best practices gap accounting would make a
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note of that either we would not recognize the revenues
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until next quarter or without a line for deferred revenue
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so we're recognizing them light that way once they become
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full fledged revenues next quarter fifty grand will evaporate from
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our deferred revenues line and our accounts receivable line and
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fifty grand will then go into our revenues line while
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the same works in the other direction We're going to
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throw a bunch of these computations your way as we
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work through the course So if you don't get all 00:09:26.523 --> [endTime] this right away don't sweat it Just keep plugging
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