Equity is commonly used in several different circumstances - home equity, shareholder equity, and brand equity. In general, it is the value of the assets held by a company or individual, minus the ...

A company’s capital structure refers to how it finances its operations and growth with different sources of funds, such as bond issues, long-term notes payable, common stock, preferred stock, or ...

Editor’s note: Paula Braveman was one of the theme advisors for the June 2017 Health Affairs equity theme issue. Until recently, talking about “equity” as a health researcher in the United States ...