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.

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.

Banks have a much different business model from most companies. As financial institutions, banks produce no goods and therefore don't have inventory. Yet what you will find on the balance sheet is ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. When you try to understand the financial status of a business, you will need a little accounting knowledge. Most ...

The balance sheet shows investors the value of the companies assets, liabilities (debt) and owners equity. It is called a balance sheet because total assets will always equal or balance to liabilities ...

Looking at the hits company balance sheets take from a pension risk transfer (PRT) to terminate a defined benefit (DB) plan, may cause plan sponsors to change course. There are instances when, after ...

Insurance companies confound many Americans, with costly premiums that often provide no obvious benefit during good times and with difficult processes to follow when you do need to make a claim. Yet ...

Banks have a much different business model from most companies. As financial institutions, banks produce no goods and therefore don't have inventory. Yet what you will find on the balance sheet is ...

A few thoughts on money, the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, and the alphabet soup of emergency liquidity facilities. The expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet has been widely misunderstood within the ...