What is a balance sheet?

By Deputy editor Tim Bennett Apr 15, 2011

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Tim Bennett explains what a balance sheet is for, including the type of information it contains, and how you can use it.

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  • 1. Graham

    (05 March 2011, 02:03PM)  Complain about this comment

    Thanks Tim, excellent guide as always.

    Having looked at the list of brokers charges eleswhere on the site and realising that savings can be made, how do I go about moving the shares I have (some within an ISA, some not) to another broker, and at what cost?

  • 2. katrina

    (25 March 2011, 11:26AM)  Complain about this comment

    Tim - thank-you really enjoy your videos. Very clear and easy to understand. Do you have one explaning who the Market Makers are?

  • 3. katrina

    (25 March 2011, 11:26AM)  Complain about this comment

    Tim - thank-you really enjoy your videos. Very clear and easy to understand. Do you have one explaning who the Market Makers are?

  • 4. Susanmba

    (17 April 2011, 01:11PM)  Complain about this comment

    Tim Bennett Tutorials - The Balance Sheet
    Assets
    +Straightforward approach
    +Understandable explanation of critical messages
    +Clear and practical style
    Liabilities
    None on display
    =
    High Net Worth
    Funding - Tim's time and MW facilities...
    Profit - knowledge/entertainment for viewers and goodwill towards TB and MW...
    On Balance - a profitable result for all

    Thank you

  • 5. Jim

    (17 April 2011, 03:22PM)  Complain about this comment

    Very interesting.

    I looked at Greggs P&L sheet, on Digital Look, and it showed they made a loss on operating profit for the last 2 years.

    Yet referring to balance sheet they made a profit.

    So your video certainly added to my education in the somewhat obtuse world of financial numbers.

    Thank you very much.

  • 6. Tim

    (12 May 2011, 09:25AM)  Complain about this comment

    Katrina - have a look at my video "what do investment banks actually do?" as a starting point on market makers. Try this link http://bit.ly/lyhPto In short, like car dealers, market makers create a market for an asset - shares. They do this by holding a stock of shares and trading them. The London Stock Exchange (amongst others) invites the bigger banks to act as market makers in less liquid stocks and advertise their prices, otherwise there would be no market as such.

  • 7. jimtaylor

    (29 July 2011, 05:50PM)  Complain about this comment

    Excellent vidoes Tim, in a good down to earth style for non-experts like myself.
    Thanks.

  • 8. Nithy

    (04 August 2012, 12:05PM)  Complain about this comment

    Tim,

    Thank you very much. I come across many terms in reading financial and investment news and articles without really knowing much about those terms. Your videos act as very good resource in making sense of all these terms using simple terms and analogies to understand not only terms but practices in the finance industry. Hats off to you... Look forward to more 'enriching' stuff.

  • 9. John P

    (16 October 2012, 12:28PM)  Complain about this comment


    A very good presentation Tim as a basic re-fresh or learning tool.

    Hope you can keep the good work up in helping people to be better informed.


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