How to Use balance sheet in a Sentence

balance sheet

noun
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  • In his mind, and for the sake of his balance sheet, resistance is no longer worth it.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Legendary bought out Wanda using its own cash on its balance sheet.
    — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
  • For many of them, this investment wasn’t about moving numbers around on a balance sheet.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • In other words, the extra spending is a blip on the federal balance sheet.
    — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Terms of the sale, which Legendary financed itself via cash on its balance sheet, have not been disclosed.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The size of the firm’s balance sheet and its strategy of holding large stakes in companies on it is unique among private-equity peers.
    — Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Compounding the Fed’s challenge is the overhang on bond yields from the Fed’s overstuffed balance sheet.
    — Douglas Carr, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Liquidity in the marketplace on the Fed's balance sheet speaks to the amount of money supply that is currently out chasing goods.
    — Frank Sorrentino, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Now, with the balance sheet about 75 percent higher relative to GDP, the effect is likely larger.
    — Douglas Carr, National Review, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The Fed also plans to phase out its bond purchases in March and is likely to start reducing the size of its balance sheet at some point, a move that has a similar effect as an increase in rates.
    — Alex Veiga, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Many businesses file for bankruptcy protection because of the need to restructure items on a balance sheet notwithstanding healthy operations and strong present-day cashflow.
    — Jonathan Carson, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion.
    — NBC News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The other way that the are doing it is through their balance sheet.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Adani gave a video speech last week stating that the group’s balance sheet is healthy.
    — Suvashree Ghosh, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Home price gains have made your balance sheet stronger.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
  • But if the land itself appears to be thriving, the farm’s balance sheet is not.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The bank laid out plans to raise more than $2 billion in an effort to shore up its balance sheet.
    — Ali Dukakis, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The warrants could add up to $247 million to the Trump Media balance sheet.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
  • The Bank of Japan’s balance sheet has long since topped the size of the nation’s $4.7 trillion economy.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The Fed last week put a hold on interest rate cuts and tweaked plans for its balance sheet.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • And the climate crisis will make those balance sheets even worse.
    — Mia Amor Mottley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Customer funds were not fine, and FTX had a $8 billion hole in its balance sheet.
    — Tracy Wang, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • But Maryland’s balance sheets do not show good news for Moore.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Fed’s balance sheet has zoomed to nearly $9 trillion.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Remember to watch changes in the balance sheet and cash flow statement.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • Retail sales are up 70% in the past year, and the company’s balance sheet is strong, with no debt, the spokesperson said.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 18 June 2022
  • But the company had only $100 million in cash on its balance sheet at the end of June.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • And all the while, bottom line of their balance sheet kept growing and growing and growing.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 7 July 2023
  • The better a fintech company does, the greater its need for a balance sheet.
    — Yaacov Martin, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Tesla and Nissan have both paid back their loans, but Ford struggled to get the debt off its balance sheet.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 22 June 2023

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