You can dissect a balance sheet until you dream of numbers dancing in mini-skirts.
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All countries have a balance sheet on one side are assets and on the other are liabilities.
Development, after all, is not simply about growth rates and numbers on a balance sheet.
True prosperity has much more to do with human experience than numbers on a balance sheet.
Bad, if you are concerned about a balance sheet that depends on the value of cars coming off lease.
Unfortunately, there is no solution to a balance sheet recession other than time.
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She struggled with the basics, such as how to read a balance sheet, even going so far as buying Accounting for Dummies.
For me, this global recession is not to be measured just in statistics, or in graphs or in figures on a balance sheet.
Here, too, you can see how setting it up on a balance sheet allows you to better examine the nature of the liability.
There are lots of lessons in entrepreneurship that only need to be learned once creating a balance sheet or projecting cash flows, for example.
Kitagawa has set new standards for information disclosure publishing a balance sheet of his government's assets and debts, a first for any prefecture in Japan.
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It does not come in convenient units (evils, giga-evils, tera-evils) that can be neatly added up to produce a balance sheet of murder and mayhem.
Now for liabilities that are often missing from a balance sheet.
With the airline industry fighting fiercely for passengers, one cheeky little carrier is consistently producing quarterly profits and maintaining a balance sheet that put its competitors to shame.
Unlike slower-changing industries like supermarkets, which can appropriately assemble a balance sheet with more debt, technology is an inherently risky business and needs a strong balance sheet to survive.
So First Solar has a strong a balance sheet and should emerge stronger than they were because some of their competitors with weaker balance sheets may fall by the wayside.
Tony Blair honoured a man who had built the Royal Bank of Scotland into one of the world's largest banks - with a balance sheet bigger even than the British economy.
The answer seems clear, suggesting financial advisors need to change the conversations they have with clients from net worth as measured by a balance sheet to true net worth, as measured by human capital.
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Jairo Saddi, who teaches law at a private university, tells of a judge who immediately spotted fraud on being presented with a balance sheet: what else could explain the suspiciously exact match between assets and liabilities?
For most people, the value of their employment exceeds the value of their assets by a wide margin, and this asset has some special characteristics that make it differ from typical items on a balance sheet or brokerage statement.
The new commissioner needs to be someone who loves the game like Selig, but who also understands how to read a balance sheet and has the determination and will to keep owners honest when it comes to their finances.
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The UK has already imposed a balance sheet tax on banks, but Europe is asking it to join them in imposing a tax on what is mainly investor speculation in an effort to raise revenue for cash strapped states in southern Europe.
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So when the Fed is on an easing course, driving both short-term and long-term rates lower to cope with a balance sheet driven recession, the safe thing for investors to do is to buy bonds, stocks, and commodities, as they tend to move higher with lower interest rates as has been the case in the aftermath of the subprime crisis.
One of the many items to augment a personal balance sheet is a reserve for grants to charities.
We continue to believe that Pall has a strong balance sheet with a manageable debt load.
Also a liquid currency and a strong balance sheet are a competitive advantage.
Of the property stocks, Ang likes City Developments, which has a strong balance sheet and a land bank acquired at cheap prices.
This healthy free cash flow has enabled the company to pay down the debt from the Washington Group acquisition, leaving it with a strong balance sheet and a net cash position.
The result: What Parker says is "a great balance sheet, " with a cash-to-debt ratio over 2.0.
Some argue that a purged balance sheet, coupled with a battered share price, makes it a much more attractive takeover target.
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