Accounting Information System - Accounting - Learning Material: Balance Sheet - Profit and Loss - Ratio Analysis - Sourch of Growth
Theories There are various theories that are relevant to accounts. Many of them relate to the firm's end of year accounts. All firms have to produce a set of accounts at the end of each year, and these are the main window to the firm's performance. It is therefore very important to understand them and be able to analyse them. Use the links below to find out about these various theories: T 1. Balance sheet The balance sheet is one of the financial statements that limited companies and PLCs produce every year for their shareholders. It is like a financial snapshot of the company's financial situation at that moment in time. It is worked out at the company's year end, giving the company's assets and liabilities at that moment. It is given in two halves - the top half shows where the money is currently being used in the business (the net assets), and the bottom half shows where that money came from (the capital employed). The value of the two halves must be the ...