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 few months ago, we published a column entitled, “Understanding Financials: Your Income Statement.” To re-read that e-column, click here. The balance sheet is another of the financial statements ...

Insurance companies confound many Americans, with costly premiums that often provide no obvious benefit during good times and with difficult processes to follow when you do need to make a claim. Yet ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. As the name implies, a balance sheet should reveal ...

See the affect appraisal capital has on company balance sheets when asset appraisals exceed book values, and explore its impact on equity and financial reporting.

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. When you try to understand the financial status of a business, you will need a little accounting knowledge. Most ...

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 ...

At the 67th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Business Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monetary policy is more effective when the public understands what the Federal Reserve does ...

Deferred gains are profits that the business has not yet accepted the money. It is sometimes called unearned revenue, and while it represents a future asset, it is treated as a liability on the ...