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What is the significance of balance sheet in Business Development?

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Question added by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India
Date Posted: 2014/12/18
Mir Mujtaba Ali
by Mir Mujtaba Ali , Internal Audit Manager , Confidential

Balance sheet is able to show you whether your business’s finances are accurately managed. For this reason, balance sheets are crucial for the strategic financial planning of any business.

Divyesh Patel
by Divyesh Patel , Assistant Professional Officer- Treasury , City Of Cape Town

A balance sheet, also known as a “statement of financial position,” reveals a company’s assets, liabilities and owners’ equity (its net worth). It, together with the income statement and cash flow statement, makes up the cornerstone of any company’s financial statements. Balance sheet tells you what you have invested in and how you have financed these investments.

 

Mohammad Mohammad Ahmed El-Safty
by Mohammad Mohammad Ahmed El-Safty , مشرف تدريب وتطوير , شركة ميداس للتجارة العامة والمقاولات

As usual more knowledge. Thanks to Mr. Vinod Jetley and Mr. Venkitarman Krishna

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

The selection of the appropriate analytical methods and techniques for assessing a business, or your investment, is crucial to correctly assessing the performance. The starting point is balance-sheet.

georgei assi
by georgei assi , مدير حسابات , المجموعة السورية

What is the significance of balance sheet in Business Development?

VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN
by VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.

One way to think of the balance sheet is that it can inform us about the kinds and degrees of financial risk an organization faces as it delivers on its artistic mission. In this context, risk — and its converse, opportunity — has three distinct levels:

  • Liquidity: Does an organization have adequate access to cash to meet its operating needs?
  • Adaptability: Does an organization have flexible funds that can allow it to make adjustments as its circumstances change?
  • Durability: Does an organization have access to funds sufficient to address the range of needs that it may face in future years?

Addressing liquidity is necessary, although for many organizations it can be quite difficult. Healthy liquidity requires an accumulation of annual operating surpluses (occasional deficits may be planned or unavoidable) and, where appropriate, a line of credit.

Funding adaptability and durability are more complex, since surpluses, when they exist and can be set aside as reserves, are rarely sufficient to do the job. Periodic infusions of contributed capital and strategic use of long-term debt are typical strategies to fund long-term needs, which can range from investments in technology to making major repairs on a building to pursuing new or improved ways of generating revenue.

Muhammad  Sultan
by Muhammad Sultan , construction foreman , Alwasead Alaqarya

Thanks for invitation

 

But i am agree with senior's 

hossam azzam
by hossam azzam , Fast food restaurant,s manager. , alexandria-egypt

Thanks for the invitation

Good question

Agreed with both answers given by

Mr.: Jetley & Mr.:Vrindavan as well too

Alex Al Yazouri
by Alex Al Yazouri , General Manager , Al Mushref Cooperative Society

I'm learning from the experts here on the significance of balance sheet.

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