It's a freeze-frame flash of a company's fiscal fitness. Our friend the balance sheet is essentially a snapshot of a company's financial condition at a single point in time (often the end of a fiscal ...

Previously, we discussed some ways to improve cash flow within a company. This evolved from a question that was posed by contractors on a message board regarding the difference between profits and ...

No accounting term generates more fear and confusion for business owners than the words "balance sheet." Most owners review their profit-and-loss statement regularly but only give their balance sheet ...

The balance sheet of a company that operates as a partnership has the same basic outline as the balance sheet of a corporation. Both types have three sections: assets, liabilities and equity. By ...

Accumulating a deficit is the opposite of accumulating gain. It means that over time, the business's debts are greater than the earnings reported on the balance sheet. Suppose your business earned a ...

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The U.S. Federal Reserve may soon need to grow its balance sheet through bond purchases and could consider shortening the ...

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