[Lyapunov] showed that a sufficient condition for local stability was that the real parts of the eigenvalues for [a Jacobean] matrix be negative.  It was a small step from this theorem to understanding that such an eigengvalue possessing a zero real part indicated a point where a system could shift from stability to instability, in short a bifurcation point.

Mathematics of Discontinuity

Thus the quantification of a firm using DEB is nothing more than a snapshot of the firm at a particular moment in time having unreliable predictive value over time.  

And the unpredictability stems directly from "the cash flow and production/consumption" since they are the dynamic mathematical parts of the DEB equation.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre