You’re a business owner and a serial entrepreneur. You own a holding company with subsidiaries that include a restaurant, a hair salon, a vitamin dispensary, and a place that sells exotic pets. If you want to know how your entire organization is doing financially...all four companies combined...you look at consolidated financial statements. These documents tell the financial health of the parent organization rather than forcing you to look at every single balance sheet one at a time.
You should look at all of the company’s balance sheets, but you’ve probably hired someone else to manage each location. And combined financial statements are much easier for investors, regulators, customers, and anyone else interested in your company to digest.
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Finance a la shmoop what is a consolidated balance sheet? okay people
this is a tale of two balance sheets it was the best of times right here and all [Lemonade stand balance sheet appears]
that cash no debt,, yeah and it was the worst of times and pretty much the
opposite and then one magical mergy day the two companies possessing these
two divergent balance sheets decided to you know merge it was a lovely ceremony [Bride and groom holding hands]
the bride wore white the groom stepped on the glass so then the balance sheets
were consolidated that is they were merged or combined or fully brought
together liabilities plus liabilities assets plus assets so the few dollars in
cash here in the worst of times balance sheet
well that was tacked on to the cash in the best of times balance sheet and the
same happened with long term liabilities and short and eventually after the
wedding night was you know consummated these two balance sheets had merged and [Man and girl standing by their lemonade stands]
consolidated and looked like this and that's what happens when companies merge
everything including their balance sheets consolidate let's hope they
generate lots of tiny cash flows and credits in the future....Mazel Tov
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