Creditors and investors would generally find the statement of cash flows least useful for assessing the financial position at a point in time.
If, at the end of 2017, a company using perpetual inventory erroneously excluded some goods from its ending inventory but recorded the purchase of these goods in its 2017 accounting records, these errors would cause (for 2017) no effect on net income, working capital, and retained earnings.
The correct order of preparing the financial statements is: income statement, statement of stockholders' equity, balance sheet, statement of cash flows.