When your company makes a profit, you can issue a dividend to shareholders or keep the money. The profits you keep are called retained earnings. You can use retained earnings to fund working capital, ...

Learn how to read a balance sheet! This beginner's guide breaks down assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity for ...

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Company management often analyzes financial statement data to understand how the business is performing relative to where it was historically, and relative to where it wants to go in the future.

A balance sheet is a versatile document that offers a snapshot of a company's or individual's finances at a given point in time. Businesses can use balance sheets to develop plans for the future and ...

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.

Assets are what’s owned by an individual or a company. They are—in accounting terms—a company’s resources from past transactions through which future economic benefits are expected to flow. In other ...