balance sheet

American  

noun

Accounting.

• balance sheets
  plural

1. a tabular statement of both sides of a set of accounts in which the debit and credit balances add up as equal.

2. a statement of the financial position of a business on a specified date.

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balance sheet British  

noun

1. a statement that shows the financial position of a business enterprise at a specified date by listing the asset balances and the claims on such assets

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balance sheet Cultural  

1. An orderly account of the assets of a company or individual and of the financial claims on those assets by others.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• balance sheets
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of balance sheet

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

balance sheet

That way, Musk can rescue the Tesla balance sheet and use the combined companies to do what he does best: raise staggering amounts of money from the public markets.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

The “security and resiliency initiative” is one of JPMorgan’s latest flagship projects, leveraging its more than $4 trillion balance sheet to invest in companies and projects that executives see as critical to the U.S. economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The moves have removed risk from the balance sheet “and transformed EchoStar into an investment company with meaningful further opportunities to unlock value,” he wrote in a note to clients on Friday while relaunching J.P.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Frasers’ strong cash flow and balance sheet put it “in an excellent position to further strengthen its strategic investments,” analysts at Panmure Liberum said in a recent research note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

There was no real reason that company had to be AIG; it could have been any triple-A-rated entity with a huge balance sheet.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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