Many firms have healthy balance sheets after taking a cautious approach to expansion since the crisis.
"We had two clean sheets after a long time without that happening.
Mr. Sheets, after a brief telephone conversation from his home in Stuart, Fla., declined to be interviewed.
But when the subprime crisis broke, the risks ended up back on the banks' balance sheets after all.
They can then trade sheets after they've been constructed and advise each other on areas for development on any key topics missed.
She straightens sheets after they have already been straightened and checks in at work doggedly when she is not there to run the place herself.
Morgan and Goldman converted to bank holding companies to stabilize their balance sheets after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September.
The images, being displayed in public for the first time, were resurrected from contact sheets after the negatives were lost in the rubble of the World Trade Center.
And those of you who are strong will receive added capital for your balance sheets, after you write down all your remaining toxic waste.
The other main measure — cleaning up toxic loans left on banks' balance sheets after the country's real estate bubble — has had more mixed reviews.
Yet companies have rebuilt their balance sheets after the crisis, and despite sluggish top-line growth, dividends — the unsung, vital part of long-term performance — look sustainable.
