Civil rights protests and the disparities revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic propelled a movement toward racial equity in 2020. Major corporations began to acknowledge that traditional diversity goals ...

The debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio is a financial metric that measures a company's financial leverage by comparing its total debt to shareholders' equity. It indicates how much debt a company uses to ...

In simple terms, a company's net income is its total revenue minus all business expenses, taxes and debt payments. A business with costs greater than the amount of revenue it brings in over the course ...

In trading, equity can mean several different things. However it usually comes down to the ownership of an asset without any debt involved. When engaging in leveraged margin trading, your equity is ...

Corporate mission statements often fall short when it comes to influencing day-to-day behavior within organizations.

Carrot equity is a financial incentive in the form of company shares granted to a manager (or key employees) of a firm who meets specified financial targets or operational goals. Carrot equity is ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

A new look at barriers to students getting the resources they need to succeed starts with defining equity versus equality. “Equity doesn’t mean the same for everyone; it means that everyone gets what ...

Columbia City Council voted 5-1, with Fifth Ward councilperson Donald Waterman dissenting, to keep the city’s original definition of “equity” in its strategic plan instead of omitting diversity, ...

A debt-to-equity ratio is a number calculated by dividing a company's total debt by the value of its shareholders' equity. A debt-to-equity ratio is one data point used by investors and lenders to ...