balance sheetin a sentence
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The company has good income, but a weak balance sheet.
balance sheet = a financial report summarizing the value of financial assets minus liabilities
- We need to think about what our marriage is really based on ....not this balance sheet, who owes who what.† (source)
- Something pretty improbable has got to show up on the balance sheet if it's all going to add up into a pretty sum.† (source)
- The fixed Swedish assets were unassailable and genuine, available to public scrutiny, balance sheets, and audits.† (source)
- African countries are littered with incomplete and abandoned projects, so skepticism was in order for a project driven less by balance sheets than by dreams.† (source)
- Fund managers understand the balance sheets and market momentum driving volatile stocks.† (source)
- There was nothing liquid about his balance sheet, but when his liabilities were subtracted from his assets, there was an impressive figure for his equity.† (source)
- I rolled my eyes again, picking up my pen and going back to my balance sheet.† (source)
- Were the injured party; we want the balance sheet corrected.† (source)
- But on the balance sheets of Taggart Transcontinental, the checks of Jim's subsidies for empty trains bore larger figures than the profit brought by the best freight train of the busiest industrial division.† (source)
- Regardless of how profitable Teknologik might be, big black numbers at the bottom of the balance sheet did not exempt corporate officers and executives from the law, not even here in Los Angeles, where the lack of money was known to be the root of all evil.† (source)
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- Now he was himself swayed by the impulse to unmask himself, to reappraise his whole life, to draw up a balance sheet, while monstrously distorting everything in his feverish excitement.† (source)
- I've never cast a balance sheet on Nevia, it's not my responsibility.† (source)
- The account—click—email—click—balance sheets—click.† (source)
- But the balance sheet still has to be sorted out.† (source)
- No idea of what his current balance sheet looks like?† (source)
- Finally he says in what sounds like a hurt voice, "Well, I know our marriage is based on a lot more than a balance sheet.† (source)
- But unlike the first Wennerström affair, this time Millennium could present a convincing burden of proof: Wennerström's own emails and copies of the contents of his computer, which contained balance sheets from secret bank assets in the Cayman Islands and two dozen other countries, secret agreements, and other blunders that a more cautious racketeer would never in his life have left on his hard drive.† (source)
- His only active client now was Salander—each month he wrote up a balance sheet and a report for the Guardianship Agency.† (source)
- Just look at my balance sheet-and then look at the books of a certain competitor of mine, who's got all the customers, all the raw materials, all the technical advantages and a monopoly on secret formulas-then tell me who's the profiteer!† (source)
- And the law pertaining to checks and shares and balance sheets was decidedly that kind.† (source)
- Therefore, in casting up this dread balance sheet and contemplating our dangers with a disillusioned eye, I see great reason for intense vigilance and exertion, but none whatever for panic or despair.† (source)
- In this ledger was made out an exact balance-sheet of his affair's.† (source)
- Still, when she learned he was coming to Rome she felt all afraid; it would be more disagreeable for him than for any one else to make out—since he WOULD make it out, as over a falsified balance-sheet or something of that sort—the intimate disarray of her affairs.† (source)
- Then he laughed at himself for being likely to have felt jealous, as if he had been a man able to marry, which, added he, it is as clear as any balance-sheet that I am not.† (source)
- I've proved the balance-sheet to be as honestly made out as it could possibly be; we have had no trouble; there have been no evasions and no concealments.† (source)
- "Gentlemen," he said, "over and above the assets that we've been talking about, and that appear on the balance-sheet, there be these.† (source)
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