Assets Balance Sheet Cash Flow 
Growth Institute
JULY 27, 2022
It’s time that your entire management team learns the importance of your business’s cash flow story. Cash is king or queen. Having adequate cash flow shows your organization’s capacity to fund business growth and repay debt. Your entire management team must access and understand your cash flow story.
AIHR
JANUARY 11, 2023
A debit is an entry that increases the value of an asset or expense in an account or decreases the value of equity or liability. A credit increases a liability or equity or decreases the value of an asset or expense in an account. The term asset refers to anything with current or future economic value owned by a company.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2016
There are people who disagree with that adage, of course, some saying that cash and cash flow are more important (and too often ignored). Let’s start with return on assets. What is Return on Assets (ROA)? “ROA simply shows how effective your company is at using those assets to generate profit.”
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 9, 2015
Income statements almost always include an allowance for depreciation of capital assets. Cash transactions, meanwhile, show up on the cash flow statement. A common mistake in ROI analysis is comparing the initial investment, which is always in cash, with returns as measured by profit or (in some cases) revenue.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 13, 2015
You take your company’s total liabilities (what it owes others) and divide it by equity (this is the company’s book value or its assets minus its liabilities). Both of these numbers come from your company’s balance sheet. So you want to strike a balance that’s appropriate for your industry.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2013
These divisions all generated consistent earnings and cash flows. The company also had three divisions — Water, International, and Merchant Investment — that were saddled with underperforming and over-valued assets. Adding the SPEs to Enron''s balance sheet would cause Enron to lose its investment-grade rating.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 10, 2015
The basic point was that online advertising was too small, and that transaction sizes were too insignificant to be anything other than a step down for companies used to rich cash flows. It is natural and appropriate to seek to leverage existing assets and capabilities.
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