The result: What Parker says is "a great balance sheet, " with a cash-to-debt ratio over 2.0.

FORBES: Magazine Article

What is left is free cash flow that can either be added to the balance sheet or distributed to shareholders via dividends or float shrink.

FORBES: Float Shrink Outperforms Dividends

Not that we pretend to know what is listed on everyone's private balance sheet, though some folks do provide that information.

FORBES: Magazine Article

To put all this in simple terms, the absence of a comprehensive solution to the eurozone's woes is progressively poisoning the German balance sheet: on the "are-what-you-eat" principle, Germany is gradually turning into Italy and Spain, in a fiscal sense.

BBC: Eurozone nations�� sovereignty v AAA

Never mind that the route to Italy's delightful balance-sheet is not quite what ultra-fastidious German and Dutch zealots might have liked too many one-off measures and accounting tricks, too much reliance on tax rises.

ECONOMIST: Prodi��s prayer

What Correnti may not be able to fix so easily is Birmingham's trashed balance sheet.

FORBES: Iron Wills

When the doors open in the morning and employees file into the building, the balance sheet goes up because it is the people, no matter what their title, that make a business worth something.

FORBES: Don't Wait For The Mythical Elevator To Success. It's Out Of Order. Q&A With Wendy Komac

"Now what we are seeing is banks are selling to raise desperately needed cash to shore up their balance sheet, " says Bryon Sheets, a partner at Paul Capital.

FORBES: Magazine Article

What appears to be equity on the balance-sheet of one set of government-controlled entities is really just debt on another.

ECONOMIST: Chinese banks are undergoing an odd kind of bail-out