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balance sheet

noun

, Accounting.
  1. a tabular statement of both sides of a set of accounts in which the debit and credit balances add up as equal.
  2. a statement of the financial position of a business on a specified date.


balance sheet

noun

  1. a statement that shows the financial position of a business enterprise at a specified date by listing the asset balances and the claims on such assets


balance sheet

  1. An orderly account of the assets of a company or individual and of the financial claims on those assets by others.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of balance sheet1

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

If women press the case for media parity together, they can change the balance sheet.

The use of off-balance-sheet debt is often a way to try to avoid getting as much investor scrutiny.

“When you pull back and look at the balance sheet, there are a lot of hidden assets,” Wilson Murphy said.

Since the bailout, GM has posted 15 consecutive quarters of profitability, and it has a very solid balance sheet.

Countries like China are becoming a global competitive force—and we will need a strong balance sheet to compete.

Opening a drawer, she took out a rough balance sheet, which showed that the business was profitable and expanding fast.

There is no need for the British taxpayer to be alarmed at this balance-sheet.

Philosophic heads must occupy themselves one day with the collective account of antiquity and make up its balance-sheet.

This is the balance sheet discrepancy resulting from the war of 1860 which the Garibaldian heirs claim is theirs by rights.

I have in my mind a commercial married man auditing in his debit and credit mind the matrimonial balance sheet.

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