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  2. What are assets, liabilities and equity? - AOL

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    owner’s equity = assets – liabilities For example, if a company with five equal-share owners has $1.2 million in assets but owes $485,000 on a term loan and $120,000 for a semi-truck it ...

  3. Accounting equation - Wikipedia

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    The fundamental components of the accounting equation include the calculation of both company holdings and company debts; thus, it allows owners to gauge the total value of a firm's assets. However, due to the fact that accounting is kept on a historical basis, the equity is typically not the net worth of the organization.

  4. Altman Z-score - Wikipedia

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    X 1 = working capital / total assets X 2 = retained earnings / total assets X 3 = earnings before interest and taxes / total assets X 4 = market value of equity / total liabilities X 5 = sales / total assets. Z-score bankruptcy model: Z = 1.2X 1 + 1.4X 2 + 3.3X 3 + 0.6X 4 + 1X 5. Zones of discrimination: Z > 2.99 – "safe" zone 1.81 < Z < 2.99 ...

  5. Balance sheet - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the assets and the liabilities is known as equity or the net assets or the net worth or capital of the company and according to the accounting equation, net worth must equal assets minus liabilities. [4] Another way to look at the balance sheet equation is that total assets equals liabilities plus owner's equity.

  6. Total Debt-to-Total Assets Ratio: What It Is and Why It ... - AOL

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    You would then divide the $40 million in total liabilities by the $100 million in total assets. That will give the company a total-debt-to-total-assets ratio of 0.40, or 40% when multiplied by 100 ...

  7. Debt-to-equity ratio - Wikipedia

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    Total Liabilities / Equity In a basic sense, Total Debt / Equity is a measure of all of a company's future obligations on the balance sheet relative to equity. However, the ratio can be more discerning as to what is actually a borrowing, as opposed to other types of obligations that might exist on the balance sheet under the liabilities section.

  8. Accounting identity - Wikipedia

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    The most basic identity in accounting is that the balance sheet must balance, that is, that assets must equal the sum of liabilities (debts) and equity (the value of the firm to the owner). In its most common formulation it is known as the accounting equation: Assets = Liabilities + Equity. where debt includes non-financial liabilities.

  9. Return on capital employed - Wikipedia

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    It is commonly represented as total assets less current liabilities (or fixed assets plus working capital requirement). [ 2 ] ROCE uses the reported (period end) capital numbers; if one instead uses the average of the opening and closing capital for the period, one obtains return on average capital employed ( ROACE ).