Convertible notes can be potent tools for a business. These borrowing instruments can be exchanged for stocks if the investor so desires. Giving such a valuable option to investors allows the issuing ...

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 ...

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Create this important document to show investors the true net worth of your business, and to keep track of your financial trajectory. If the income sheet shows what you’re earning, the balance sheet ...

While you may consider a balance sheet to be an essential financial statement for a company, assessing your own personal assets, equity and wealth in a well-laid-out financial report is equally ...

Back in ye olde days (pre-2008 in the United States), central bankers had not gone nuts with QE and so reserve balances were ...

Fortress-like is the term you want to hear. What separates a strong balance sheet from a weak one? In this podcast, Motley Fool senior analysts John Rotonti and Bill Mann discuss: Assets, liabilities, ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) introduced a new accounting standard (ASU 2016-02) that requires companies to recognize operating lease assets and liabilities on the balance sheet. My ...