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.

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 ...

A balance sheet report representing your company's assets and liabilities should net out to zero between all of the categories. In other words, the sum of your company assets, liabilities and equity ...

Photo: www.SeniorLiving.org via Flickr. A balance sheet is one of the major financial statements companies issue. It shows the financial position of a business at a given point, such as at the end of ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. One of the tools that can be used to assess the performance of your business or organization is a balance sheet. A balance sheet, which ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. The balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow ...

A balance sheet provides a snapshot of a company's assets, liabilities and equity at a specific point in time, while an income statement summarizes its revenues and expenses over a period to show ...

Balance Sheet Liabilities Continue to Climb for Private Companies Amid Lease Accounting Transition – New LeaseQuery Report Lease liabilities rose 419% on average, with 10 industries seeing bigger ...

Traditional financial reports miss critical business drivers like frozen capital, deferred taxes and relationship quality.

The new lease accounting standard caused lease liabilities for the average company to increase a whopping 1,475 percent, skyrocketing from $4.4 million before the transition to $68.9 million post ...