Archive for the 'Balance Sheets' Category

Another word for hedged… leveraged

November 11, 2007

Market turmoil is still quite fascinating to me and I still believe the current environment will be one for the history books and I’m still trying to take as much as I can from this learning experience.
My professional work experience is in fixed income. For two years, I was very “plugged in” to the markets [...]

Corporate leverage puzzle

August 28, 2007

I hope I’m giving enough disclaimers so that no one can possibly be fooled into thinking I actually know what I’m talking about, but I continue trying to absorb as much as I can as events unfold.
I know very little about financial statements and most of my comments on the subject of corporate leverage have [...]

SFAS 140

August 6, 2007

Over on NP, rowdyroddypiper, a.k.a. rrp, on July 26 said:
If you want to see what goes into getting something off balance sheet start reading up on FAS 140. I will send you something if you like on it.
I consider this homework that I haven’t done yet, but thought it was interesting to see FAS [...]