Many investors almost completely ignore the financial statements that companies report. Yet it's important to understand the ins and outs of companies in which you invest, and knowing the basics of ...

Business investors, managers and owners are interested in the balance of stockholders' equity shown on a company's balance sheet, because it represents the value of a corporation's net assets, or its ...

In previous chapters of "Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage," authors Mary Buffett and David Clark outlined ...

Stockholders' equity is the value of assets a company has remaining after eliminating all its liabilities. Companies with positive trending shareholder equity tend to be in good fiscal health. Those ...

When a corporation's board of directors declares a cash dividend to its shareholders, the balance sheet account "retained earnings" is reduced by the amount of the dividend. Since retained earnings is ...

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 balance sheet is a type of financial statement that lists a company's assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity. The assets should be in "balance" and equal the total liabilities and ...

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Stockholders' equity is what's left when you take a company's assets and subtract its liabilities. Therefore, knowing the ending stockholders' equity balance for a particular time period gives you a ...

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Balance sheets consist of assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity, revealing financial health. Shareholders' equity equals assets minus liabilities and reflects theoretical investor value if a ...

Stockholders' equity is what's left when you take a company's assets and subtract its liabilities. Therefore, knowing the ending stockholders' equity balance for a particular time period gives you a ...