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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. 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.

  5. Liability (financial accounting) - Wikipedia

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    The accounting equation relates assets, liabilities, and owner's equity: Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity. The accounting equation is the mathematical structure of the balance sheet. Probably the most accepted accounting definition of liability is the one used by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The following is a ...

  6. What Is Owner’s Equity? - AOL

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    Owner's equity is the value of a business that the owner can claim, and it consists of the firm's total assets minus its total liabilities. Both the amount of owner's equity and how much it has ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. Financial ratio - Wikipedia

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    Note that Shareholders' Equity and Owner's Equity are not the same thing, Shareholder's Equity represents the total number of shares in the company multiplied by each share's book value; Owner's Equity represents the total number of shares that an individual shareholder owns (usually the owner with controlling interest), multiplied by each ...