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It provides a summary of how cash flows have been created or dissolved during the fiscal period. The stress is on cash cause profit (in the income statement) is based on promises, not money coming in. So if you want to know whether a company has cash to pay employees,
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To put in practice the theory on how an income statement is structured (in the article HERE), let's take a look at a couple income statements. I don't want to make you certified accountants therefore we'll just focus on the main peculiarities of the
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The income statement is also called a profit and loss statement, P&L, statement of earnings, or statement of operations. The first important observation is that, as I covered in the financial statements introduction post, the income statement does not show the cash-in and cash-out of the company but
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To put in practice the theory on how a balance sheet is structured (from the article HERE), let's take a look at a couple balance sheets. I don't want to make you certified accountants therefore we'll just focus on the main peculiarities of the
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The balance sheet is a picture of the working capital of the company in a specific moment in time, or in simple terms, all the things the company owns and owes: Assets represent where the company has invested money, while Liabilities + Equity are where the company took the money to
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Although there are a lot of numbers in accounting and finance, it is not an exact science. This is because: * In many cases they are estimates of reality. * Different countries have different rules and follow different standards * International standards often are not very strict in terms of the structure for