Learn how to build a balance sheet to assess your liabilities, assets and equity, and better understand your financial picture.

Learn financial statement analysis techniques, including horizontal, vertical, and ratio analysis, to assess company ...

Create a balance sheet that includes net profit margin using a spreadsheet program. Create columns with headings such as Total Sales, Overhead Costs, Assets, Liabilities and Net Profit Margin.

And it has another morbid but practical value. “If you don’t have a balance sheet and something happens to you, the search for your assets will become a buried treasure hunt,” writes Eckels.

Investors are increasingly turning their attention to the Federal Reserve's balance sheet and whether it could help keep the economy on track or prematurely plunge the nation into another ...

The Fed seems to have shrunk its balance sheet to a place where reserves no longer come to the rescue during times of market pressure, rates strategists and economists said.