The Financial Statements

Balance Sheet

A snapshot of what a company owns and what it owes on one date, the last day of its fiscal year. The income statement says whether the business made money; the balance sheet says whether it can survive a bad stretch. The four lines shown here are the ones that answer that fastest: the cash it holds, the debt it owes, the difference between the two, and the shareholders’ equity left once every liability is subtracted from every asset.

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