suppose a friend of yours showed you the pro forma financial statements for his start-up and exclaimed excitedly that during the first three years of...

suppose a friend of yours showed you the pro forma financial statements for his start-up and exclaimed excitedly that during the first three years of operations of his firm will make a net income of $150,000 per year, which is just the amount of money ($450,000) the firm will need to pay off a three-year loan. Given your study of this chapter, why is that your friend may not actually have $450,000 in cash, even though his pro forma income statements say that he will earn that amount of money?