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.

Your balance sheet lists your company's assets, liabilities and equity; it is sometimes called your statement of net worth. A classified balance sheet is merely one that has been arranged so that key ...

Your financial assets minus your liabilities denotes your net worth. While your net worth is not your self-worth, you can create wealth in both areas. A broad definition of an asset is as anything ...

Discussing total assets vs. total liabilities leads to pondering balance sheet tactics. With a strong balance sheet, a company can wield its financial resources to make money, stop a dwindling bottom ...

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.

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. When investing, assessing a company’s assets and liabilities is a basic requirement to ...

Looking out over the busy streets from her hotel room window, Thitiporn (Pom) Yongchaihirun tried to decide when to leave her room to navigate Jakarta’s heavy traffic to make it to the World Bank ...

There are various cheat sheets floating around on how markets may react to the data. Here's one, from JPMorgan, on how the S&P 500 would react to different CPI readings: A monthly rise of 0.4% or more ...