What is equity? and how it is calculated?

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What is equity? and how it is calculated?..

Answer / p.giri kumar

Amount owed by the business to Shareholoders. It is
calculated as followes
Paid up Capital + Free Reserves + Credit balance of P&L -
Accumulated losses

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What is equity? and how it is calculated?..

Answer / priya

Mr.Vijay Equity in simple sense is capital we have an
equation
Equity = Assets -Liability
you can understand this with your balance sheet.
As capital differs from one person to another in same way
we have Equity equations for company accounts which is your
first answer by one of our friend.This is the basic
equation.

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What is equity? and how it is calculated?..

Answer / pallavi tomar

capital generally composed of fund, that fund breaks into
share'sand those share divided into shareholder as a equity
shareholder.Total assets minus total liabilities; here also
called shareholder's equity or net worth or book value

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What is equity? and how it is calculated?..

Answer / anoj

The total claim against an enterprise is known as
equity.equity= owners claim(asset)+outsiders claim
(liabilities)

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