Few companies thrive and grow without some kind of outside financing. Acquiring assets, launching projects, expanding into new locations or business sectors -- these all take capital, and lots of it.

Non-profit organizations are not in business to make a profit. This simple but significant issue points to the absence of profits or losses in the non-profit world--a major difference as compared with ...

Fitch’s 2018 hospital median report, based on audited 2017 data, shows operating margins declined for the second consecutive year in every rating category. The 2017 median operating margin was 1.9 ...

A balance sheet is a financial document that presents the financial status of a business through an accounting of a company’s assets, liabilities, and equity. A balance sheet, when looked at with a ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. As the name implies, a balance sheet should reveal ...

When you want to know a company’s financial health, it helps to look at its balance sheet. But if you’ve never seen a balance sheet before or don’t know how to read one, all you’ll see is a collection ...

Balance sheets consist of assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity, revealing financial health. Shareholders' equity equals assets minus liabilities and reflects theoretical investor value if a ...