Learn how to analyze a company's balance sheet, including assets, liabilities, and equity, for smarter investment decisions.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

How to understand balance sheets and income statements. A key metric that can tell you about a company's pricing power. What you're actually purchasing when you buy a stock. To catch full episodes of ...

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.

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 ...

A balance sheet provides a snapshot of a company's assets, liabilities and equity at a specific point in time, while an income statement summarizes its revenues and expenses over a period to show ...

Motley Fool senior analyst John Rotonti walks you through the most important financial statements using Chipotle as an example. In this podcast, Motley Fool senior analyst John Rotonti discusses: How ...

Most successful investors agree with the notion that in crises, cash is king. That's especially true in a crisis that leads to entire industries shutting down for an uncertain period of time, ...

At the 67th Annual Meeting of the National Association for Business Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monetary policy is more effective when the public understands what the Federal Reserve does ...