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by stocktech 3121 days ago
If you want me to take you seriously talking about revenue, don't show me half a balance sheet.
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Links to the audited financial statements are available at the bottom of https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/
I think the point is they should have shown a cash flow statement.
You don't need a cash flow statement to show revenue. And if the cash flow statement is prepared using the indirect method (start with net profit, and adjust non-cash items) it may not even show revenue at all.
You don't, but it works a hell of a lot better than a subset of a balance sheet at a single point in time.
Probably, but sometimes both will be equally useless.
Why isn't a consolidated cash flow statement enough?
NB: The chart further down is in _thousands_ of dollars!
Mozilla has $500mm in assets, most of which is fairly liquid, and less than $70mm in debt.

Furthermore, they increased net assets by about a third in one year, and they cleared $160mm in profit from their $520mm in revenue.

They are in a very good financial position.