> ## Documentation Index
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# Balance Sheets
> As-reported balance sheets for SEC filers by fiscal year, quarter or trailing twelve months, in the currency and accounting standard the company filed.
Balance Sheets provides as-reported balance sheets for SEC filers. Each observation is one fiscal period for one company, carrying assets, liabilities and equity as the company filed them, in its own reporting currency and under its own accounting standard. Rows are returned newest first.
**Plan:** Free and above · **Credits:** 1 per call
## What You Can Use Balance Sheets For
Track leverage, working capital and cash over time. Compute book value per share alongside [Financial Metrics](/financials/metrics). Check a company's liquidity position at a specific period end. Reconcile a balance-sheet movement against the [cash-flow statement](/financials/cash-flow-statements) for the same period.
## Balance Sheets Coverage
Coverage is SEC filers. Figures are read from each company's own XBRL data as filed, so the history runs as far back as the company's XBRL filings do. For a company that is not an SEC filer, resolve it through [the company registry](/companies/registry) first to see what it is — non-US issuers are served by [Taiwan Financials](/international/taiwan-financials), [Korea DART Financials](/international/korea-dart-financials) and [Form 20-F](/international/form-20f) instead.
## Key Balance Sheets Fields
The statement carries the reported asset, liability and equity line items, together with `report_period`, `period`, `currency` and `accounting_standard`.
## Currency and Accounting Standard
Every row carries `currency` and `accounting_standard`.
`currency` is the currency the company reported in. Values are never converted to US dollars, so a row for a European filer is in euros and adding it to a US filer's row without conversion produces a meaningless number.
`accounting_standard` is `us_gaap` or `ifrs`. The two standards define several line items differently, so check the field before comparing or summing across companies.
## Balance Sheets Date Convention
`report_period` is the end of the fiscal period the figures cover, and it is what the `report_period`, `report_period_gte`, `report_period_lte`, `report_period_gt` and `report_period_lt` filters apply to. Rows are returned newest first.
`period` says what kind of period a row is. `annual` rows cover a fiscal year, `quarterly` rows cover a fiscal quarter, and `ttm` rows cover the trailing twelve months ending at `report_period`. A trailing-twelve-month row is a computed rolling window, not a period the company reported as such.
## Balance Sheets Sources
Figures are read from the company's own XBRL exhibits in its SEC filings. They are as reported: no restatement, no normalisation, and no currency conversion.
## Query Balance Sheets
Use the balance sheets endpoint. One of `ticker` or `cik` is required, and `period` is required.
Trading symbol. One of `ticker` or `cik` is required.
SEC Central Index Key. One of `ticker` or `cik` is required.
`annual`, `quarterly` or `ttm`.
Exact period end, `YYYY-MM-DD`. `report_period_gte`, `report_period_lte`, `report_period_gt` and `report_period_lt` bound a range.
Number of period rows to return, newest first.
The response wrapper key is `balance_sheets`. These routes return a bare wrapper key rather than the standard envelope, page by `limit` only, and use the flat `{ error, message }` error body.
## Related Datasets
See also [Combined Financial Statements](/financials/combined) to get all three statements in one call, [Financial Metrics](/financials/metrics) for computed ratios over the same periods, [Segmented Financials](/financials/segments) for as-reported segment breakdowns, and [SEC Filings Index](/filings/index) for the filings these figures come from.
```bash cURL theme={null}
curl "https://api.focusalpha.ai/v1/financials/balance-sheets?ticker=AAPL&period=quarterly&limit=4" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FOCUSALPHA_API_KEY"
```
```json Response theme={null}
{
"balance_sheets": [
{
"cik": 320193,
"ticker": "AAPL",
"period": "annual",
"fiscal_period": "FY",
"report_period": "2025-09-27",
"currency": "USD",
"accounting_standard": "us_gaap",
"accession_number": "0000320193-25-000079",
"total_assets": 359241000000,
"current_assets": 147957000000,
"non_current_assets": 211284000000,
"cash_and_equivalents": 35934000000,
"current_investments": 18763000000,
"non_current_investments": 77723000000,
"inventory": 5718000000,
"trade_and_non_trade_receivables": 39777000000,
"property_plant_and_equipment": 49834000000,
"total_liabilities": 285508000000,
"current_liabilities": 165631000000,
"non_current_liabilities": 119877000000,
"current_debt": 20329000000,
"non_current_debt": 78328000000,
"total_debt": 98657000000,
"deferred_revenue": 9055000000,
"trade_and_non_trade_payables": 69860000000,
"shareholders_equity": 73733000000,
"retained_earnings": -14264000000,
"outstanding_shares": 14773260000
}
]
}
```