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Resume Cheats and What You Can Do About It the same categories. You can pick up a balance sheet of General Motors and one from your local grocer and each will have assets, liabilities and net worth.If you work as a human resource director or you do the hiring for your company then obviously you have seen bogus resum?s with bogus information on them. Sometimes you can spot them a mile away and other times you can't. It seems like the very best liars have the most professional looking r?sum?s.Unfortunately so do the best applicants and sometimes it's hard to tell them apart. Of course meeting the individual and asking them questions point-blank you can obviously get a good idea from the body language what type of person they are.Nevertheless there are so many resum? cheats with so much bogus information on their resum?s including but not limited to fake degrees; that it is amazing that we cannot do something about this. Employers are indeed held liable for any misrepresentation to employees, abuses in the hiring process or any number of employment laws, where as employees who lie on resum?s get away with murder and the very worst that might happen to them is they are n The assets in a balance sheet are arranged in decreating order of how quickly then can be turned into cash (liquidity). That is why Cash is always first, accounts receivable second, inventory third and so on. The liabilities are listed in order of how soon they must be repaid. In this fashion, accounts payable usually top the list, other payable, taxes payable, bank note payable, mortgages and so on. Net worth is defined by a number of categories depicting what type of funds are invested by the owners or stockholders. In more detail these All these statistics relate in one way or another in determining how well we do. They are the measuring sticks of life. Business use them; governments use them; churches use them; non-profit organizations use them. The most widely used statistic or measuring stick is the financial statement. Financial statements are the measuring stick for success or failure in business. They provide management with the ability to measure their success or failure. The value of a company is measured by its financial resources and ability to generate income. Financial statements are tools we use to buy or sell a business, to purchase stock of a business listed on the stock exchange, and to validate our income and expenses in our non-profit organization or church. Financial statements are the single largest resource used by bankers to determine if they should lend money to a prospective customer. The federal and state governments use our financial statements to assess taxes. Within a company, financial statements are the most accurate record of performance and one of the most helpful tools to management, if they are used correctly. Financial statements can help management determine if profit targets are being met, if cash flow is adequate, if long range objectives are being achieved; and they provide a backbone for predicting the future. In short, if management uses their monthly financial statements as a resource and management tool, it usually determines the difference between failure and doom. The Key Components of a Financial Statement The most important element of a financial statement is the balance sheet. The balance sheet provides a picture, a literal snap shot, of the financial health at a given time in a company's history. The balance sheet is composed of three primary segments: Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (stockholders equity). Think of a balance sheet as a teeter totter, the only difference is there is one person on onside and two people on the other side and it always is in balance. The one person by themselves could be considered the assets: the total funds invested in the business and the other side. The liabilities are the fund supplied to the business by its creditors and Net Worth is funds supplied to the business by its owners. Debra, if you can think of a better way to picture this, give it a try. The balance sheet has been standardized by the accounting profession and essentially all basically contain the same categories. You can pick up a balance sheet of General Motors and one from your local grocer and each will have assets, liabilities and net worth. The assets in a balance sheet are arranged in decreating order of how quickly then can be turned into cash (liquidity). That is why Cash is always first, accounts receivable second, inventory third and so on. The liabilities are listed in order of how soon they must be repaid. In this fashion, accounts payable usually top the list, other payable, taxes payable, bank note payable, mortgages and so on. Net worth is defined by a number of categories depicting what type of funds are invested by the owners or stockholders. In more detail these Within a company, financial statements are the most accurate record of performance and one of the most helpful tools to management, if they are used correctly. Financial statements can help management determine if profit targets are being met, if cash flow is adequate, if long range objectives are being achieved; and they provide a backbone for predicting the future. In short, if management uses their monthly financial statements as a resource and management tool, it usually determines the difference between failure and doom. The Key Components of a Financial Statement The most important element of a financial statement is the balance sheet. The balance sheet provides a picture, a literal snap shot, of the financial health at a given time in a company's history. The balance sheet is composed of three primary segments: Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (stockholders equity). Think of a balance sheet as a teeter totter, the only difference is there is one person on onside and two people on the other side and it always is in balance. The one person by themselves could be considered the assets: the total funds invested in the business and the other side. The liabilities are the fund supplied to the business by its creditors and Net Worth is funds supplied to the business by its owners. Debra, if you can think of a better way to picture this, give it a try. The balance sheet has been standardized by the accounting profession and essentially all basically contain the same categories. You can pick up a balance sheet of General Motors and one from your local grocer and each will have assets, liabilities and net worth. The assets in a balance sheet are arranged in decreating order of how quickly then can be turned into cash (liquidity). That is why Cash is always first, accounts receivable second, inventory third and so on. The liabilities are listed in order of how soon they must be repaid. In this fashion, accounts payable usually top the list, other payable, taxes payable, bank note payable, mortgages and so on. Net worth is defined by a number of categories depicting what type of funds are invested by the owners or stockholders. In more detail these The Key Components of a Financial Statement The most important element of a financial statement is the balance sheet. The balance sheet provides a picture, a literal snap shot, of the financial health at a given time in a company's history. The balance sheet is composed of three primary segments: Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (stockholders equity). Think of a balance sheet as a teeter totter, the only difference is there is one person on onside and two people on the other side and it always is in balance. The one person by themselves could be considered the assets: the total funds invested in the business and the other side. The liabilities are the fund supplied to the business by its creditors and Net Worth is funds supplied to the business by its owners. Debra, if you can think of a better way to picture this, give it a try. The balance sheet has been standardized by the accounting profession and essentially all basically contain the same categories. You can pick up a balance sheet of General Motors and one from your local grocer and each will have assets, liabilities and net worth. The assets in a balance sheet are arranged in decreating order of how quickly then can be turned into cash (liquidity). That is why Cash is always first, accounts receivable second, inventory third and so on. The liabilities are listed in order of how soon they must be repaid. In this fashion, accounts payable usually top the list, other payable, taxes payable, bank note payable, mortgages and so on. Net worth is defined by a number of categories depicting what type of funds are invested by the owners or stockholders. In more detail these The balance sheet has been standardized by the accounting profession and essentially all basically contain the same categories. You can pick up a balance sheet of General Motors and one from your local grocer and each will have assets, liabilities and net worth. The assets in a balance sheet are arranged in decreating order of how quickly then can be turned into cash (liquidity). That is why Cash is always first, accounts receivable second, inventory third and so on. The liabilities are listed in order of how soon they must be repaid. In this fashion, accounts payable usually top the list, other payable, taxes payable, bank note payable, mortgages and so on. Net worth is defined by a number of categories depicting what type of funds are invested by the owners or stockholders. In more detail these The assets in a balance sheet are arranged in decreating order of how quickly then can be turned into cash (liquidity). That is why Cash is always first, accounts receivable second, inventory third and so on. The liabilities are listed in order of how soon they must be repaid. In this fashion, accounts payable usually top the list, other payable, taxes payable, bank note payable, mortgages and so on. Net worth is defined by a number of categories depicting what type of funds are invested by the owners or stockholders. In more detail these are: 1. Assets - This includes current assets: cash, accounts receivable and inventory; fixed assets: land, buildings, equipment, machinery, furniture; and other assets patents, trade marks, and money due from others (accounts or notes receivable). 2. Liabilities - This includes funds acquired for a business through loans or the sale of property or services to the business on credit. Creditors do not acquire business ownership but hold promissory notes that are to be paid at a designated future date. Liabilities are defined as either current liabilities, payable within a year or long term, liabilies with maturies longer than a year. Current liabilities would include accounts payable, notes payable, taxes payables, salaries payable, and the current portion of long term debt. Long term debt would include mortgages payable, notes payable and any other obligation or money due to a creditor. 3. Shareholders' equity (net worth). This is money put into a business by its owners for use by the business in acquiring assets. Money can flow into equity through common stock, preferred stock, retained earnings (profit earned by the company in prior years) and current earnings, all total the net worth. Deductions to net worth would include treasury stock and dividends. Your financial balance The balance sheet is an excellent tool, management tool, for keeping you in tune with the financial balance or financial imbalance of your business or organization. This financial balance has cash flow and profit implications, which can greatly benefit or hinder the businessman. Entrepreneurs usually start their companies with a little bit of money, usually not enough. The overwhelming share of owner’s equity, though, comes from that powerful source-retained earnings. During the history of the business, there needs to be a reasonable balance between the proportion of owners (stockholders) money in the business (net worth) and others people's (liabilities). There isn't a precise, scientifically derived cutoff point between financial balance and financial imbalance, but there is an approximate point and its impact is really and immediate. The best way to determine this point is through a ratio called the debt to worth ratio. It measures the relationship between liabilities (others people's money) to net worth (owners/stockholders money). This ratio is calculated by dividing the total liabilities by the total equity (common stock + retained earnings + current year earnings). Example, if the company had $350,000 in liabilities and $100,000 in net worth the company would have a 3.5 to 1 debt to equity ratio or for every dollar the owners had invested in the business, the other people have $3.50 loaned to the business. Determining the adequacy or inadequacy of this debt to worth relationship is not
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