Aid in the calculation of key financial ratios, such as the debt-to-equity ratio and current ratio, which influence ...

A balance sheet is a financial statement that provides a snapshot of a company's assets, liabilities, and shareholder's equity. A balance sheet is a type of financial statement. It gives you an ...

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 ...

The Balance Sheet represents the financial position of the University and Business Areas at a particular point in time. The Balance Sheets are represented as Assets, Liabilities, and Equity/Fund ...

Learning to adjust long-term debt on a balance sheet can be daunting for a business. Handling a long-term notes payable journal entry or providing long-term loan accounting treatment can be ...

In the previous issue, we republished a column from 2008 to help readers who might be confused or even baffled by the massive paradigm shift contained in the recent lease accounting exposure draft ...

The new lease accounting standard caused lease liabilities for the average company to increase a whopping 1,475 percent, skyrocketing from $4.4 million before the transition to $68.9 million post ...

For February 27, my forensic accounting needle in a haystack comes from an airline that early adopted a new accounting standard related to its operating leases. Analyst Peter Apockotos found an ...

In February 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an update known as ASC 842 that, among other changes, brings most leases onto the balance sheet. Now, all of a company’s operating ...

First Brands enters bankruptcy protection after lenders raised red flags over the company’s billions of dollars of ...