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  • Using a home purchase to illustrate assets, liabilities and owner's equity. Created by Sal Khan.
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    Finance and capital markets on Khan Academy: This old and badly drawn tutorial covers a topic essential to anyone planning to not live in the woods -- your personal balance sheet. Since homes are usually the biggest part of these personal balance sheets, we cover that too.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 235

  • @brco2003
    @brco2003 16 років тому +27

    My professor, with a PhD. in Accounting, couldn't explain this simple concept... but you could... and did it clearly. Thank you, Sal!

  • @neverwrest09
    @neverwrest09 8 років тому +329

    How do you know everything? One minute your teaching me about cellular respiration the next minute its finance. What went wrong with my childhood?

    • @ghassansiregar1376
      @ghassansiregar1376 8 років тому +83

      +neverwrest09 just read his biography, he was an MIT graduate in math, electrical engineering, and CS. Also has an MBA from Harvard business school

    • @pootlovato8285
      @pootlovato8285 7 років тому +10

      We all learn these subjects/topics in school it all depends on how much of the info students retain. You also learn better by teaching. And hes a harvard grad so that explains a lot lol

    • @blownspeakersss
      @blownspeakersss 6 років тому +41

      His knowledge of various subjects has VERY little to do with his schooling. It has much more to do with the fact that he's dedicated his life to learning new things -- as we all should!

    • @jennyi0929
      @jennyi0929 6 років тому +2

      lol

    • @madelynrpoer6700
      @madelynrpoer6700 6 років тому +1

      I was JUST wondering this

  • @ast453000
    @ast453000 7 років тому +35

    Although a lot of explanations start with Assets, I think the easiest term to begin with is Equity.
    Think of Equity as [stuff (you own) that you haven't borrowed].
    Liabilities are [stuff you have borrowed].
    Assets, then, is an artificial term standing for [stuff (you own) that you haven't borrowed] + [stuff you have borrowed].
    Assets = [stuff you have borrowed] + [stuff (you own) that you haven't borrowed]
    A = L + E
    =====================
    but some people might think that it is more intuitive to start with Assets and write:
    A - L = E
    And from this equation one can easily derive:
    A = L + E
    But the first explanation helps me understand better what Assets really are. Although, in the end it's all the same.

    • @TheMistercrowley
      @TheMistercrowley 6 років тому +2

      Your initial explanation makes equity sound like assets. It’s confusing imo.

    • @macharkuluel2314
      @macharkuluel2314 2 роки тому

      Asset anything that puts money into your pocket every month while liability anything takes money away in your pocket

  • @krisdang
    @krisdang 7 років тому +127

    Did he just use a stripper example xD 02:07

    • @Optimally_healthy5831
      @Optimally_healthy5831 5 років тому +2

      haha maybe he means like to pay for a Zumba instructor xDD

    • @sierrabaker7277
      @sierrabaker7277 4 роки тому

      Thought I was the only one who caught that 😂

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 4 роки тому +1

      Only a filthy mind would think of a stripper.

    • @cesarc.9435
      @cesarc.9435 4 роки тому

      @@bighands69 hahahaha

  • @merlinrajah3076
    @merlinrajah3076 10 років тому +161

    make someone dance for you....lol

    • @bighands69
      @bighands69 4 роки тому +1

      Yes ballroom dancing is an excellent pass time. You can hire people to dance with you.

    • @diegoamores9295
      @diegoamores9295 4 роки тому +5

      I think the memories from last night started to fade back into memory at an inconvenient point in time

  • @Neileesh
    @Neileesh 9 років тому +215

    Funny how i learned to make balance sheet from you rather than my accounting professor lol

  • @benjaminheydecker2659
    @benjaminheydecker2659 10 років тому +86

    Who is Sal paying to dance for him????????

  • @SasiSharon
    @SasiSharon Місяць тому +1

    Wait this video is 16 years old? Yet so relatable 😮..
    Sal you're really something else

  • @purplehazepixie
    @purplehazepixie 10 років тому +2

    Khan Academy got me through grade 12 bio and im SOOO EXCITED that you have videos to help get me through accounting!! thanks so much for all you do!!

  • @thl4444
    @thl4444 5 років тому +13

    i love his voice it's perfect for learning somehow lol

  • @Alonzojrcooks19
    @Alonzojrcooks19 10 років тому +12

    I love this guy, “A hundred thousandaire” @ 8:09 lol.
    Thank you sir.

  • @swatisquantum
    @swatisquantum 12 років тому +3

    Khan Academy is on the level of Google in my opinion. I can't learn from text books as effectively as I'm learning from your videos! Just my .02

  • @qaraniqioqaraniqio2542
    @qaraniqioqaraniqio2542 8 років тому +7

    You deserve to be called a teacher.

  • @ramonmendoza566
    @ramonmendoza566 8 років тому +8

    You're an awesome man Khan!
    Thank you so much for helping us all!
    Incredibly useful, and certainly life changing information!

  • @angelabays1850
    @angelabays1850 9 років тому +1

    I imagine Sal holding a sign saying, "Will dance for equity!" I like your videos. I actually understand them.

  • @samuelliljegren2152
    @samuelliljegren2152 5 років тому +1

    Hi Mr. Khan! Just wanted to thank you for helping me ace my education in business admin and economics. Couldn't have done it without you!

  • @HappyKatze
    @HappyKatze 6 років тому +2

    As you go through the finance playlist, you can hear bits of the financial crisis unravel. Very interesting to hear it from the teacher as we learn about finance ^^

  • @rinskydances93
    @rinskydances93 12 років тому +3

    My god this man is legendary. Here i was thinking he was just an amazing maths teacher, but no, he does accounting tutorials too! god bless you.

  • @orclogic1495
    @orclogic1495 3 роки тому +1

    Taught me physics 101 in 2011, now watching Sal Khan again in 2021 waiting for the next market correction haha!

  • @sondos6268
    @sondos6268 8 років тому +2

    This guy will go to heaven!!

  • @bullit199
    @bullit199 12 років тому +2

    Great video. My one tip would be to have your assets and liabilities diagrams match your formula order (A= L + E). That's how I see it in other accounting basics videos.

  • @louiejackson25
    @louiejackson25 9 років тому +9

    Man this guy is funny as hell...great videos, Im gonna take some of his finance advice and lapdance my debts away jajajaja.

  • @franco521
    @franco521 3 роки тому +1

    6:00 part of banks made of granite and doing silly things is the highlight of the video!

  • @TheFinancialController
    @TheFinancialController 4 роки тому

    Simple and to the point!

  • @cmatrainerumar
    @cmatrainerumar 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much for this video

  • @situmbekomubila3264
    @situmbekomubila3264 5 років тому +2

    I like your teaching style. So effective. You have really helped me in my studies in almost all my courses.

  • @ioannislazaridis4887
    @ioannislazaridis4887 4 роки тому

    THE BEST TEACHER EVER ! THANK YOU Mr Khan for all your instructive videos.
    p.s. i consider my self a free person too , zero debt , i fully own my apartment , regular job and some money in E.T.F. Thanks again.

  • @lorenzofranco8406
    @lorenzofranco8406 8 років тому +7

    Where I'm from, assets go on the left-hand side of the balance sheet. Whereas, the liabilities and equity go on the right.
    Furthermore, the 'assets = liabilities + equity' formula is somewhat misleading. I say this, because, in order to utilise such a formula, you have to calculate the equity. And, equity is the last thing to calculate in a balance sheet.
    I was taught: equity = assets - liabilities. This way, it indicates what order you should complete the balance sheet in. In other words, calculate and add assets (or its monetary values) together. Then, calculate and add liabilities (or its monetary values) together. THEN, take the liabilities away from the assets, which will leave you with the equity.

    • @cristinacarreiro8969
      @cristinacarreiro8969 8 років тому

      +Lorenzo Franco Same here. That's how I've been taught it too. Debits (Assets) go on the left and Credits (Liabilities and Equity) go on the right side. Same formula as well.

    • @lorenzofranco8406
      @lorenzofranco8406 8 років тому

      Cristina Carreiro Precisely, homie.

    • @jyotirmoydas6653
      @jyotirmoydas6653 7 років тому

      Lorenzo Franco You took a loan of 750k from the bank, you had 250k in your hand. Total becomes 1000k which you pay to but the house for 1M. So, after buying the house, how do you have an equity of 250k? Just curious.

    • @lorenzofranco8406
      @lorenzofranco8406 7 років тому +1

      Because the asset of the house amounts to $1m, which is broken down into a liability of $750k and an equity of $250k.
      Asset(s) = Equity + Liability

  • @dboijahskush1251
    @dboijahskush1251 8 років тому +41

    "use cash to make someone do something for you" right there i thought of strippers
    ...and then he said make someone dance for you XD

  • @aligulbaz
    @aligulbaz 6 років тому +5

    Kindly make complete course like economics on Accounting.

  • @InstTaxSolutionsLLC
    @InstTaxSolutionsLLC 11 років тому

    Being able to read and interpret a balance sheet is one of the most crucial elements that anyone in business should be able to do.

  • @fallingskies11
    @fallingskies11 10 років тому +1

    I WOULD APPRECIATE MORE ACCOUNTING VIDEOS :(
    i love using this videos as complements to my college courses!

  • @rodneyclark9332
    @rodneyclark9332 5 років тому

    Sounds like me...talking about the economy at parties lol. Your videos have taught me the basis of the financial system and are quenching my thirst for the understanding that I've had before I discovered your tutorials. Thank you and have a blessed New Year.

  • @sabu083
    @sabu083 15 років тому

    hi you made balance sheet look very simple..cant get simpler than what you have explained.thanks a lot for making me understand basic concept of balance sheet.

  • @fleshcookie
    @fleshcookie 9 років тому +1

    at parties peoples eyes start to glaze over. Your killin me Sal!!

  • @ns3510
    @ns3510 4 роки тому +2

    "I have an IOU to dance for someone in the future - it'll be hard to value"
    That's because it's priceless! 🤣

  • @rowheim
    @rowheim 7 років тому

    This is really cool and entertaining man thanks for all the time you put into this!

  • @Littledave563
    @Littledave563 11 років тому

    Liquid assets are assets that are easily converted to cash. Liquid assets include: stocks, bonds, other marketable securities, and of course cash.
    Liquidity is the simply the sum of all your liquid assets.
    Hope this helps

  • @NOURMAL21
    @NOURMAL21 12 років тому +1

    who needs a tutor, when i have you !!

  • @Dani-ww5qr
    @Dani-ww5qr 7 років тому +5

    anyone come from reading Rich Dad Poor Dad? I keep hearing Robert Kiyosaki's protests when ever Khan says the house is an asset haha.

    • @crazyhatdance
      @crazyhatdance 7 років тому +1

      Same! I kept cringing at his explanation.

  • @pawemikoajczuk9445
    @pawemikoajczuk9445 4 роки тому +1

    Good video
    At least in Poland Assets are on the left-hand-side, liabilities on the right

  • @oldiraqisback
    @oldiraqisback 12 років тому

    Why aren't you teaching at my school????? :(
    great stuff Mr. Khan. Thank you very much.
    God bless you.

  • @kvn89
    @kvn89 13 років тому

    ah finally taking another class where khan comes to the rescue

  • @Shaf1548
    @Shaf1548 9 років тому +4

    You saved me :') Thanks for teaching me in the clearest/ simplest way possible.

    • @ifratx3
      @ifratx3 7 років тому

      Robin Schaffer im taking acounting 101 with a professor who has a bad rating lol do you think i can pass just by watching his videos? have you?

  • @linuxd
    @linuxd 3 роки тому

    The concept of equity is starting to make a little more sense to me

  • @juliocandiaguilar
    @juliocandiaguilar 6 років тому +1

    “Make someone dance for you” perfect haha!

  • @kalverso9851
    @kalverso9851 3 роки тому

    ayo how this dude just be knowing things bruh

  • @matthew96oliver
    @matthew96oliver 11 років тому

    You are a boss man!! You are my study for business studies

  • @jameelacruz6995
    @jameelacruz6995 6 років тому

    U LIFESAVER SAL KHAN THANK U

  • @mayj77
    @mayj77 6 років тому

    This is the most informal (aka BEST) explanation ever Thankyou!

  • @-Muhammad_Ali-
    @-Muhammad_Ali- 15 років тому

    i loved your describtion of the bank.. the vids are very informative too

  • @thelaw8042
    @thelaw8042 8 років тому +1

    it's more accurate to define assest as anything with monetary value.

  • @akanechan06
    @akanechan06 8 років тому +1

    Thank you!!

  • @hongyiluo9653
    @hongyiluo9653 12 років тому

    Hope our teacher can teach Accounting like this video

  • @blaskosarcevic4305
    @blaskosarcevic4305 4 роки тому

    You're really funny and intelligent, it's awesome. Don't get me wrong but what was funny to me was the way you got emotional talking about owing nothing to nobody :)

  • @MuscleSculptor
    @MuscleSculptor 13 років тому

    excellent stuff, Khan. Really broken down to simple and understandable language and pictures...for basics of credit management and accounting (with stuff like housing purchases etc). I have a degree in accounting...and I know that this stuff here is on mark...to get a general idea of the concepts. Anyway, keep up the good work...

  • @hannahjean731
    @hannahjean731 4 роки тому

    THANK YOU!!

  • @ahmadfraz4140
    @ahmadfraz4140 6 років тому

    Sir ur lecture design very beautifull.lecture deliver of balance sheet through examples sre awsums.
    I got it everything
    THANK.YOU

  • @azadkaya
    @azadkaya 10 років тому +9

    Can you make a video about all the silly things the banks do? :)

  • @RaNeMoO
    @RaNeMoO 14 років тому +1

    Thank you so much (:
    God bless u

  • @TheFailmoose
    @TheFailmoose 11 років тому

    Thanks Sal!

  • @abhishekravindra4008
    @abhishekravindra4008 7 років тому

    mesmerising quote "banks do silly things"

  • @newsgirl132
    @newsgirl132 9 років тому

    You're awesome. Makes a lot more sense now!

  • @zufrieden23
    @zufrieden23 13 років тому

    Great tutorial! simple, easy, and correct!

  • @danikadestinikey7477
    @danikadestinikey7477 2 роки тому

    7:24 - “My wife was complaining that I make these things very hard to read, but what can I do?” Well, the handwriting becomes neater and general readability improves in your later videos, for sure 😆

  • @AzhanAbdulRahim
    @AzhanAbdulRahim 12 років тому

    This is very well explained. Thank you.

  • @tomlindsay7861
    @tomlindsay7861 3 роки тому

    great video thank you.

  • @lalsiou
    @lalsiou 6 років тому

    Thanks ! From a French viewer who has a bad accounting teacher

  • @deeman010gdj
    @deeman010gdj 11 років тому

    Its considered equity because if the asset were to be liquidated that particular value would be left over after all liabilities are settled (I think).

  • @AITODAY88
    @AITODAY88 12 років тому

    Lol I used this is gcse, now in pre uni still needed this again lol

  • @zuhaibahmed2700
    @zuhaibahmed2700 8 років тому

    You are a hero

  • @frdoze
    @frdoze 9 років тому

    great job..thank you for making this easy to digest

  • @m.bilalmajid
    @m.bilalmajid 5 років тому

    Wow! This is so old

  • @trevinmurray8551
    @trevinmurray8551 11 років тому

    You are not lying... this dude is EVERYWHERE.... i got better chess because of him :/

  • @livadi23
    @livadi23 14 років тому

    Great videos man thanks!

  • @fdr100100
    @fdr100100 11 років тому

    dancing is actually an economic benefit indeed

  • @GRepp-iy1nj
    @GRepp-iy1nj 5 років тому +2

    "equity, I owe nothing to nobody"

  • @rezavoirdawg
    @rezavoirdawg 9 років тому +1

    you should do all videos. Hilarious.

  • @dwichiesa
    @dwichiesa 12 років тому

    Love it! Damn wish I watched this earlier

  • @tutto920i
    @tutto920i 14 років тому

    managerial income statement pleez this woud be so help full

  • @yab5163
    @yab5163 8 років тому

    thank you so much!!!

  • @bbylani
    @bbylani 12 років тому +1

    Your amazing! I learn and understand a lot more from you than from Uni. Subscribed :) hoping you make more accounting and finance videos, it was very helpful thanks

  • @MrUncooldude
    @MrUncooldude 12 років тому

    THANKS

  • @NYQQE
    @NYQQE 13 років тому

    I Love You ! :D you are very smart, good in explaining and funny

  • @TotalTimeout
    @TotalTimeout 14 років тому

    Thanks, this was quite helpful :)

  • @maddecent08
    @maddecent08 14 років тому

    thank u so much for this!!!!

  • @filcox
    @filcox 15 років тому

    Subscribed...nice job

  • @RicardoDavid182
    @RicardoDavid182 6 років тому

    I hope the students of today realize how lucky they are. When I finished my Accounting degree there wasn't such thing as UA-cam and no such thing as ebooks that you can get at a blink of the eye. If the teacher was not so good teaching a subject, things could get really hard. You would need to hurry up to get a library book before everybody else. Also, usually students would gather to study together and if you were lucky, one guy that would know more about one given subject would try to explain to the rest of us and maybe we would take copies of his/her documents. Today, you just search the internet and usually everybody can find a lot of free information about almost any given subject.

  • @armynynja
    @armynynja 12 років тому

    Ok so before I get jummped here on youtube about being wrong let me point out that I dont know much on this subject & that's why im here, to learn!! So that being said, wouldn't it make more sense to say that Equity is equal to Assets minus liabilities? Or is that even the same?

  • @ahmer9800
    @ahmer9800 10 років тому

    lol @ "banks do silly things"
    nice 2008 reference. me me chuckle and more interested in the video!
    thank you.

  • @noraa.pookie.s
    @noraa.pookie.s Рік тому

    you can make someone dance for you. good example, Sal

  • @TheLivingHeiromartyr
    @TheLivingHeiromartyr 7 років тому

    Surely your liability needs to include the interest you owe? Or does you represent that by increasing the liability as time passes?

  • @neosmith166
    @neosmith166 7 років тому

    Eyes start to glaze over.. lol. Great video!

  • @deeman010gdj
    @deeman010gdj 11 років тому

    In the traditional definitions of accounting anything you buy can be considered an asset because it has a value attached to it at the particular moment that you buy it.
    I'm assuming that you're using some professional's opinion on what an asset is (ex. Robert Kiyosaki)

  • @educo-mr
    @educo-mr 11 місяців тому

    GOOD

  • @Flu_Tang_Clan
    @Flu_Tang_Clan 3 роки тому

    March 2008, wow. The real trouble had not even began.

  • @adamaqmal
    @adamaqmal 12 років тому

    omg that easy.

  • @djtoddles8750
    @djtoddles8750 5 років тому +1

    Making someone dance for you has to be a financial benefit or rappers wouldn't be so obsessed with making it "rain"

  • @devbodaghe
    @devbodaghe 12 років тому

    The 10 percent interest does count as a liability on your balance sheet.

  • @patpagorek
    @patpagorek 2 місяці тому

    I believe an IOU is not enough for a mortgage, you need a promissory note.