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What is Owners Equity?Previous lesson: Define Liability Next lesson: The Accounting Equation and Financial Position Owner’s equity is officially defined as: ...the residual interest in the assets of the enterprise after deducting all its liabilities. The owner’s equity is simply the owner’s share of the assets of a business. 
Assets can only ‘belong’ to two types of people: the first type is people outside the business you owe money to (liabilities), and the second is the owner himself (owner’s equity). Owner’s equity, often just called equity, represents the value of the assets that the owner can lay claim to. In other words, it's the value of all the assets after deducting the value of assets needed to pay liabilities. It is the value of the assets that the owner really owns.
ASSETS = EQUITY + LIABILITIESThus the accounting equation indicates how much of the assets of a business belong to, or are owned, by whom.In our final lesson of this section we're going to relook the accounting equation and see how it relates to the financial position of a business. Previous lesson: Define Liability Next lesson: The Accounting Equation and Financial Position Ask Us a Question About This LessonStill scratching your head after going through this lesson? No problem. Send us a question you have relating to this lesson or topic... Return from What is Owners Equity? to Basic Concepts Return from What is Owners Equity? to Home Page
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