If you're interested in investing, you've probably read quite a few articles that say "do your homework" before buying a stock. Reading and understanding a balance sheet is part of that homework.

A company's financial statements—balance sheet, income, and cash flow statements—are a key source of data for analyzing the investment value of its stock. Stock investors, both the do-it-yourselfers ...

Your balance sheet lists your company's assets, liabilities and equity; it is sometimes called your statement of net worth. A classified balance sheet is merely one that has been arranged so that key ...

Companies rely on assets to help them generate revenue and become profitable. Some assets are long-term, while others are current. What are current assets? These are a company’s assets used in normal ...

A balance sheet gives a "snapshot" view of a company's financial position at a particular moment in time. It shows the company's assets (what it owns), liabilities (what it owes), and remaining equity ...

The term balance sheet can seem like odd financial jargon if you're not familiar with it, but a balance sheet is simply a document that shows a company's assets, meaning more or less what it owns, and ...

A balance sheet displays what a company owns, what it owes, how it's financed, and its shareholders' equity at a particular point in time. An income statement displays the company's revenues and ...

Discussions about an optimal size of the Fed’s balance sheet are increasingly at odds with the diverse drivers of how this ledger interacts with a shifting regulatory environment.

Warning signs in crucial money markets have raised the prospect that the central bank will soon stop reducing its portfolio ...

For anyone who has ever pushed a giant shopping cart through throngs of Costco customers on a Saturday, it looks like business at the membership shopping warehouse is booming. But how healthy is ...

Andriy Blokhin has 5+ years of professional experience in public accounting, personal investing, and as a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an ...