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What is the Accounting Equation? Explaining Assets = Liabilities + Equity

Peak Frameworks

The accounting equation is a fundamental concept in finance that every private equity professional, investment banker, and corporate , finance expert should be familiar with. Liabilities represent the obligations a company has to outside parties, such as debts, loans, and accounts payable. For example, Apple Inc.

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Corporations: Examples, Structures, Pros, and Cons

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Corporations can raise funds by selling shares, as Facebook did in its 2012 IPO. Drawbacks and Challenges of a Corporate Structure Despite the benefits, corporations do face challenges: Financial and Administrative Burdens. As previously mentioned, C corporations face the risk of double taxation.

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The essential guide to raising private equity

Growth Business

Rob Baxter, head of corporate finance at KPMG, said: “Overall, the fundamentals that underpin the private equity market are still very much in place. By 2012 he and some other shareholders wanted to exit, and we decided to seek a replacement capital transaction with private equity.