Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781118162286
Author: Kimmel, Paul D.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Balance sheet is a financial statement that shows the available assets (owner’s equity and outsider’s equity) and owed liabilities from investing and financial activities of a company. This statement reveals the financial health of company. So, this statement is also called as Statement of Financial Position. It helps the users to know the creditworthiness of a company as to whether the company has enough assets to pay off its liabilities. The main components of balance sheet are assets, liabilities, and stockholders’ equity.

To write: in a memo (a) The purpose of a balance sheet, and (b) Reason for this incorrect balance sheet and show how to correct it.

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