Investors tend to spend a lot of time looking at a company’s profits and sometimes its cash flows. Yet often the condition of its balance sheet and particularly the assets on it are not given enough attention. Checking out the soundness of a company’s assets can give you a great insight into the quality of its profits and can be a good way of keeping you away from bad businesses.
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The Editor
Sterling’s void
The government’s new public investment plans make sense, but may not be enough to reverse the pound’s downward spiral
John Hughman