balance sheet

English

Noun

balance sheet (plural balance sheets)

1. (accounting) A summary of a person's or organization's assets, liabilities and equity as of a specific date.
   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

Derived terms

• balance sheet equation

 

Translations

summary of assets, liabilities and equity

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: հաշվեկշիռ (hy) (hašvekšiṙ)
• Bengali: রেওয়া (bn) (reōẇa), সালতামামি (bn) (śaltamami)
• Catalan: balanç (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資產負債表／资产负债表 (zh) (zīchǎn fùzhài biǎo), 財務狀況表／财务状况表 (cáiwù zhuàngkuàng biǎo)

• Czech: rozvaha f
• Danish: balance c
• Dutch: balans (nl) f
• Esperanto: bilanco
• Finnish: tase (fi)
• French: bilan (fr) m
• German: Bilanz (de) f
• Greek: ισολογισμός (el) m (isologismós), κατάσταση χρηματοοικονομικής θέσης (el) f (katástasi chrimatooikonomikís thésis)
• Hungarian: mérleg (hu), eredménykimutatás (hu)
• Indonesian: neraca (id)
• Italian: stato patrimoniale (it) m
• Japanese: 貸借対照表 (ja) (taishaku-taishō-hyō), バランスシート (ja) (baransu sīto)
• Maori: ripanga kaute
• Ottoman Turkish: میزان (mizan)
• Polish: bilans (pl) m
• Russian: бала́нс (ru) m (baláns)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: balansräkning (sv) c
• Tagalog: dahon ng katuusan
• Turkish: bilanço (tr)

See also

• income statement