The proceeds have shored up the balance sheet but the trading picture is grim.
After cash, I believe the liability section of the balance sheet is the most important section.
When you pay the credit card bill, you would record a decrease in the cash asset account on the balance sheet and a decrease in the "accounts payable" account on the balance sheet.
From the slightly scruffy facilities to the club's balance sheet, this is no Manchester United or Chelsea.
Although the bank has just cut its dividend it still views its balance sheet as a "fortress", and the safest European Banks have similar ratios.
Citi should be able to take the losses in its stride, given its enormous balance sheet and low cost of funds (thanks to cheap deposit funding).
Besides selling securities outright, the Fed has a number of other tools to shrink its balance sheet when it moves to tighten credit.
When the direct write-off method is in use, the accounts receivable will be listed in the balance sheet at their gross amount, and no valuation allowance will be used.
Including a market analysis, a business plan, the organizational structure, an assessment of the company's risk control capability, the proforma balance sheet and profits in the following three years after the business commencement.
"In the first three months of each fiscal year, the manager shall prepare the previous year's balance sheet, profit and loss statement and proposal regarding the disposal of profits, and submit them to the board of directors for examination and approval."
The package will give everyone breathing space to reassess the banks' balance sheets.
And there we return to the question of damaged household balance sheets.
While he lacks a strong background in mathematics, colleagues say he has an instinctive grasp of balance sheets.
This should diminish the urgency for Banks to shrink balance sheets and should engender a less risk-adverse attitude to lending.
Douglas Cliggott, U.S. equity strategist with Credit Suisse, says that with all this cash on corporate balance sheets, he is expecting more buybacks and dividend increases.
At Chrysler, all of that work was done by the bankruptcy court, so Marchionne takes over with one of the cleanest balance sheets in the industry.
Moreover, we do not carry the legacies of the past several years in our Banks' or public sector balance sheets that are such an impediment in other places.
If household balance sheets were really the main obstacle to faster recovery, wouldn't the divergence in economic performance between high-debt areas and low-debt areas be far more clear?
The main funding tool of the buy-out boom is what is known as leveraged lending: essentially, loans to borrowers with too much debt on their balance sheets to be judged as investment grade by rating agencies.
