Accounting

Balance Sheet

Balance Sheet

Financial statement showing the company's financial position at a given date: assets, liabilities and equity.

The balance sheet is one of the 4 mandatory financial statements in SYSCOHADA (along with Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement and Notes). It consists of Assets (what the company owns) and Liabilities (how it is financed). The fundamental equation is: Assets = Liabilities + Equity.

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