Talk:Ownership equity

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The other definitions are very restrictive and do not add anything to what equity is. It is the same for stocks, commodities, real estate, or even bank accounts.

Owners interest in an asset after all liabilities are paid. GT

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[edit] QUESTION

what is equity as a whole in account and what are its concepts?

http://uk.ask.com/web?q=Does+Owner%27s+equity+represent+the+liabilities+of+a+business%3F&qsrc=0&o=312&dm=all ??

[edit] Move article discussion

The proper name for this account is "Owners Equity" and it is for proprietorships only, not corporations, which use Shareholders' equity. Octopus-Hands 09:12, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Is that "owners" with no apostrophe? Not "owner's" or "owners'"? — Saxifrage ✎ 00:09, 21 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Section not complete

In the "Real Estate equity" section, the sentence is not complete at the end of the paragraph. Can someone fix this please and then delete this discussion topic. Thanks. Sky Apperley 07:08, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Seems to be complete now. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:03, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How is it the "exact opposite?"

I am curious about the last sentence in the "Real Estate Equity" section...

It is my understand that Equity = Assets - Liabilities. In real estate, the equation seems to be Equity = Market Price in home - Liabilities. In other words, in real estate, the equation looks like this: Equity = Assets (market price of your home) - Liabilities. The two equation seems to be very similar (the same?), not the exact opposite. Am I missing something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 19:32, 5 December 2007 (talk) Venomous Pen

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Ye I agree. How is it that this real estate equity is opposite from equity in accounting. Unless he is challenging using market price and not historical cost as a valuation of the property which still doesn't make sense. Whoever wrote that section must have no idea what he is talking about, and it got approved by wiki. OMG. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.164.60.87 (talk) 00:41, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
I am no accountant, but the paragraph made no sense as it stood. I have removed the 'exact opposite' sentence. Thanks for pointing it out. Next time, be bold. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

Shareholders' equity is a sub-topic of ownership equity. The overlap between the two concepts would be less confusing for both readers and editors, if both topics were discussed in full in the Ownership equity article. I am sorry that I don't have time to do this at the moment, but I think this is uncontroversial, so if you have time, I recommend that you act boldly and write shareholder's equity as a section of the ownership equity article. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Agree with above (including time constraint), but also book value might be included, and perhaps even Equity investment

Smallbones (talk) 16:18, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Agree with above. i think that most people who have to resort to the articles on wikipedia concerning "equity" in the first place will want to start broad and not narrow. i didn't even know there were more than one kind of "equity". i had no idea what it meant and wanted an easy definition. more confusing having to click around and find a good place to start. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.124.30.7 (talk) 02:10, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

 agree with above...am not an expert ...but by whatever i've leart finance course these two are parts of the same concept,complementing each other  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.165.244 (talk) 10:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)