Is it normal not to be able to reconciliate historical financial statements of companies?

Hi, as the title says, I'm training my modelling skills.

I have no problems projecting the statements but reconciliate the statements in a dynamic way is impossible for me. It looks like companies are changing a lot of lines.

Is it normal ?

Thanks

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