Lesson 21
How a company makes money
Revenue, costs, profit
Revenue is everything a company takes in. Costs such as wages, materials and rent are deducted. What remains is the profit.
The balance sheet in brief
The balance sheet shows what a company owns and how that is financed: with the owners' equity or with debt. A lot of debt makes a company more vulnerable when business is poor.
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