balance sheet

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balance sheet

Summary

balance sheet ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (564 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • balance sheet is a type of financial statement[2].
  • balance sheet is part of double-entry bookkeeping[3].
  • balance sheet is part of tax law[4].
  • balance sheet is part of general economics[5].
  • balance sheet is part of financial accounting[6].
  • balance sheet's Commons category is recorded as Balance sheets[7].
  • balance sheet's pseudonym is recorded as statement of financial position[8].
  • balance sheet's pseudonym is recorded as statement of financial status[9].
  • balance sheet's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Balance sheet[10].
  • balance sheet's facet of is recorded as accounting terminology[11].
  • balance sheet's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • balance sheet's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[13].
  • balance sheet's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14].
  • balance sheet's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15].
  • balance sheet's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16].
  • balance sheet's described by source is recorded as Collins English Dictionary[17].
  • balance sheet's different from is recorded as heritage designation[18].
  • balance sheet's P14541 is recorded as 4PC12a[19].

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Definition and Type

balance sheet is a type of financial statement[2].

Use and Application

Part of include double-entry bookkeeping[3], a bookkeeping system[20]; tax law[4], an area of law[21]; general economics[5], a branch of science[22]; and financial accounting[6], a field of work[23].

Why It Matters

balance sheet ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (564 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · AddyLockPool · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Investopedia term id → b/balancesheet
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'as', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', '
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Otto's encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947) +3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P10715]]: balancesheet"
  2. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4PC12a
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → heritage designation
    Facet of → accounting terminology
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → financial statement
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2695, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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