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Definition: Balance Sheet is the financial statement of a company which includes assets, liabilities, equity capital, total debt, etc. at a point in time. Balance sheet includes assets on one side, and liabilities on the other. … It is the amount that the company owes to its creditors.

In simple words, accounting can be defined as keeping records of all financial transactions related to an individual or an entity. And then there are pre-defined rules and procedures in the way a transaction should be accounted for. This is what we call debit or credit, income or expenditure, asset or liability.

Also known as the balance sheet equation, the accounting equation formula is Assets = Liabilities + Equity. … In other words, all uses of capital (assets) are equal to all sources of capital (debt: liabilities and equity).

Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. It integrates with external data to allow you to import and export banking information and financial data to and from other accounting software platforms.