Learn how to analyze a company's balance sheet, including assets, liabilities, and equity, for smarter investment decisions.

An increase in private equity acquisitions has made odd bedfellows of once-disparate, competing accounting firms.

Discover how share premium accounts are positioned on balance sheets and their strategic financial uses, including issuing bonus shares and expense coverage.

Equity represents the accounting (book) value of a company or it can represent ownership of a specific asset, such as a car or house. Learn more about equity in finance and how investors use it to ...

Earlier this month, the Department of Labor penned a public letter in response to an inquiry from two private equity firms. The asset managers, Pantheon Ventures and Partners Group, wanted to know ...

Stockholders' equity is the value of assets a company has remaining after eliminating all its liabilities. Companies with positive trending shareholder equity tend to be in good fiscal health. Those ...

Private equity firms are playing a larger role than ever in merger and acquisition deals, according to a report by Ernest & Young. Private equity activity now represents 30 percent of the M&A market, ...