A company’s long-term success hinges on its financial health. In a competitive market, stable companies may come out on top while unstable companies can struggle to survive. One of the clearest ways ...

Companies prepare an income summary and an income statement at the end of an accounting period. While an income summary is a clearing account used to close income-statement accounts at the end of a ...

What Is An Income Statement? An income statement lists a company’s income, expenses, and resulting profits over a specific time frame, usually a quarter or fiscal year. Companies create income ...

An income statement is a financial document that details the revenue and expenses of a company. Some investors and analysts use income statements to make investing decisions. The income statement, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Income statements are fundamental financial documents that track a business’s revenue, expenses, and profit over a specific period.

A company's income statement shows how much money it brought in as revenue or sales, how much it spent on expenses, and how much profit or loss -- also called net income -- was generated for a given ...

A balance sheet provides a snapshot of a company's assets, liabilities and equity at a specific point in time, while an income statement summarizes its revenues and expenses over a period to show ...

Editor’s Note: This post is focused on helping you understand profit and loss statements. This financial statement is used by most small business owners to help assess business profits and losses ...

David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, corporate and individual tax planning and preparation, and investing and retirement planning.