Liabilities are what's owed by an individual or a company. They are—in accounting terms—a company's present obligations, originating from past transactions, through which economic benefits are ...

usiness firms use a financial analysis technique called asset vs. liability management (ALM) to mitigate risk due to a mismatch in their assets and liabilities. A mismatch occurs when assets and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. When investing, assessing a company’s assets and liabilities is a basic requirement to ...

Asset Liability Management or ALM is a mechanism designed to address the risk faced by banks due to a mismatch between assets and liabilities, which arise either because of liquidity or because of ...

Assets on a balance sheet include current assets like cash and inventory, and fixed assets like property. Asset turnover and return on assets measure a company's efficiency in using assets to generate ...

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 ...

We once asked a banker and chief executive about his decision to lend to a startup technology company that later became a big success. The banker took out a sheet of paper and wrote two words: "assets ...

Assets represent any items owned by an individual or a business that have the potential to grow in value. Defining assets isn’t easy, as “any item” is a broad category that encompasses myriad items ...

The balance sheet provides a look at a business at a snapshot in time, often at the end of a quarter or year. In some cases, the accounts on the balance sheet -- assets, liabilities, and equity -- can ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...