How to find a public company's balance sheet and income statement?
The balance sheet and income statements are located in the 10-K and 10-Q filings for all publicly traded companies. It will be Item 8. "Filter by the filings when you look at the search results.  The 10-K will include the annual report, which included fiscal year-end financial statements.  Quarterly reports and statements are in the 10-Q filing. The filing will include a LOT of other information, but there should be a section called ""Financial Statements"" or something similar that will include all pertinent financials statements. You can also find ""normalized"" balance sheets and income statements on the ""finance"" pages of the main web search sites (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and other sites that provide stock quotes.  If you're looking to do basic comparisons versus in-depth statement analysis those may be sufficient for you." The websites of the most publicly traded companies publish their quarterly and annual financials.  Check the investor relations sections out at the ones you want to look at.
Assuming you are saying that the company issues 20,000 additional shares of its own stock and sells them for $8 each: The money from the sale is not income and not part of earnings.  It is capital and appears on the balance sheet as part of shareholder's equity. With no other transactions, yes, the total of shares outstanding is increased by 20,000 to 100,000. The best source of financial statements would be from the company in question. On corporate websites of public listed companies, you can find such financial statements uploaded in the Investor's Relations section of their website. If their company does not have an online presence, another alternative would be to go to the website of the exchange the company is trading in (e.g. NYSE or NASDAQ) for financial data. it depends on what kind of IT you did, and where you took your econ courses afterward.  did you do any coding?  do any business cases studies?  Can you calculate the book value of a firm from its balance sheet and assess the net present value of its cash flow?  What happens to the value of a $1000  10 year bond at 4% when the current market rate drops to 3% 6 months after it was purchased?  Do you know what kind of corporate valuation doesn't appear in a financial statement?  If you can answer 1/2 of these questions, you will probably do just fine, but you will need to find someone to hire you and you will have to advance or find a new job every so often when you get bored again.  another idea is to get an MBA in finance where you are, then jump into the finance arena. "Ugh... yes, you have to tell us what information you have available. It would be a completely different answer if, for example, you had a balance sheet for a prior period and an income statement for the current period and had to estimate the working capital accounts. If you can't be bothered to ""want to give the problem"" nobody is going to be bothered to help you with it.   Inventory days = days of COGS in inventory. (15 / 360 times cogs). AR is 35 days of sales in AR. 35/360* sales. Vendor credit is accounts payable -- 40 /360 * COGS.   If your sales and COGs are given by operating cycle rather than annually, use 50 instead of 360. (for whatever reason, convention says use 360 instead of 365)." Ya, that's a lot of data - especially considering your relative lack of experience and the likely fact that you have no idea what to do with what you're given.  How do you even know you need minute or tick-based bid-ask data?    You can get a lot more than OHLC/V/Split/Dividend.  You can get:  * Book Value; * Dividend information (Amount, yield, ex date, pay date); * EBITDA; * EPS (current AND estimates); * Price/sales ratio; * Price/book value; * Price/earnings ratio; * PEG ratio; * Short ratio; * Market cap.  Among other things, all for free. Log in to your Scottrade account, and goto Markets --> Analyst Views --> Click the PDF link for the company.  Also, there is also the 'Views and News' part of the web page which has additional information beyond what exist in the reports. "Here are some approaches you may value: Wolfram Alpha This is a search engine with a difference. It literally is connected to thousands of searchable databases, including financial databases. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=list+of+public+companies+ Just keep clicking the ""more"" button until you have them all.You can also get great company specific information there: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=NYSE%3ADIS&lk=1&a=ClashPrefs_*Financial.NYSE%3ADIS- Just keep clicking the ""more"" button until you have them all.Then the company it'self will have great information for investors too:  [http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/investors][3] (Just keep clicking the ""more"" button until you have them all.) Regards, Stephen" "You will have to check SEC forms to know this in full. A publicly-traded company will have an amount of publicly tradable shares which can be easily found on their financial reports. But. that is not the only type of equity-like financial instrument that such a company can issue. A previous reply mentions ""follow-on"" public offering. However, a company may initiate a private equity offering without disclosing ahead of time, sometimes with warrants, or long-lasting options to purchase (new) stock."