Modeling Help: Balance Sheet Slightly Off

This is a bit embarassing, but I've having trouble balancing some of the projected years for this model. 

The model is from Multiple Expansion, and I've followed every single step of their instructions. Why doesn't the b/s balance?
 

Would appreciate any help.

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The most common "cash, debt, interest, cash" circularity holds here, and I have the circularity option in Excel on. Somehow, it's still not working...I'm not sure why, as I've followed every single step of their instructions. 

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95% of the time when the model doesn't balance, especially when there is PIK involved, there is some kind of an error related to interest expense. Another common one that throws off the model will be the undrawn commitment fee on the revolver. I always check those few things first. Found the bust in 5 minutes. This formula is overly complicated and stupid way of doing this (not OP's fault, he just followed the guide). I love when people create these stupidly complex formulas to try to appear smart lol and then when there's a bust it's like brain surgery to find the error. For each tranche of financing fee amort you should always show beg and ending balances. Yes it takes more time but it's for exact reasons like this you don't want to skip stuff like that. The debt waterfall and optional prepayment is built in an incredibly stupid way in this model. 

 

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