balance sheet

accounting financial summary
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balance sheet
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Summary

balance sheet ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,599 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: financial statement[2]
  • Part of: double-entry bookkeeping[3], tax law[4], general economics[5], financial accounting[6]
  • Commons category: Balance sheets[7]
  • Pseudonym: statement of financial position[8], statement of financial status[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Balance sheet[10]
  • Facet of: accounting terminology[11]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Otto's encyclopedia[13], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14], Collins English Dictionary[15]
  • Different from: heritage designation[16]
  • P14541: 4PC12a[17]

Why It Matters

balance sheet has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d 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 */ Investopedia term id: balancesheet"
  2. 13w 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. 21w 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 */ Yso id: 2695, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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