How does a forecasted balance sheet balance?

Dumb question - when forecasting a balance sheet, how does it balance if your projecting line items like AR and AP using days? If AR goes up by $1 MM, how can that possibly balance

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Forgive me for not completely understanding your question here. Your A/R increases, so you have cash that you are supposed to collect --- already recorded as revenue --- but haven't collected yet so your cash is not there. That is a decrease in cash when you work on the cash flow statement because A/R increase in an increase in asset which is a cash outflow. 

 

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