They change from day to day and are hard to harmonize given the range of accounting standards and balance sheet structures across the region.
Its executives have long contended that its stringent lending standards and strong balance sheet would enable it to weather any financial storm.
Jayne Shontell, the director of investor relations, said investors should look at the company's core earnings, its earnings under standard rules and its balance sheet.
The series is meant to be cumulative, and this week's segment in particular will not make any sense until you've at least understood some of the basic workings of the three standard financial statements: the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flow.
The banker will always require certain balance sheet standards.
Advocates for the return of the gold standard like to treat the balance sheet of the United States, in the words of the commentator James Grant, as though it were a "junk-bond prospectus".
Yet Goldman's business standards manifesto also promised expanded balance sheet disclosures.
In filing for moral bankruptcy, the Republicans will formally attest that they have no morals, standards, or ethics on their balance sheet, and will agree to cease all activity as a political party in exchange for indemnity from any and all legal actions.
And by airline standards, Frontier has maintained a strong balance sheet: At last count it had $150 million in cash and debt equaling 54% of total capital, second among low-cost carriers after Southwest, at 25%.
As a result, they entered this recession with what were, by historical standards, quite healthy balance sheets.
