Learn about balance sheet reserves, liabilities that insurers use to ensure funds for claims. Explore their types, significance, and examples in business finance.

Through the Great Depression and the current recession, despite the Enron and Arthur Andersen meltdowns and a slew of legislation, the balance sheet – an indicator of a company’s health – has remained ...

Julia is a writer in New York and started covering tech and business during the pandemic. She also covers books and the publishing industry. With over a decade of editorial experience, Rob Watts ...

A balance sheet is a financial report that provides a snapshot of a business’s position at a given point in time, including its assets (economic resources), its liabilities (debts or obligations), and ...

Learn how to identify creative accounting practices that manipulate balance sheets, impacting assets, liabilities, and equity for perceived financial performance.

Previously, we discussed some ways to improve cash flow within a company. This evolved from a question that was posed by contractors on a message board regarding the difference between profits and ...

The link between a balance sheet and an income statement is obvious, but it's also tricky. The more income your business earns, the more value should show up on its balance sheet. But the calculations ...

To understand what a provisional balance sheet is, it first helps to explain how a balance sheet works. Balance sheets are financial statements that businesses use. They provide information about the ...

Articles on balance sheets – the key financial statement that provides a snapshot of a company’s financial position at a specific point in time. Here, Lee Murphy of Pandle explains how to create a ...