It is comprised of the following three elements: 1  Assets: Something a business owns or controls (e.g. cash, inventory, plant and machinery, etc) 2  Liabilities: Something a business owes to someone (e.g. creditors, bank loans, etc) 3  Equity: What the business owes to its owners.
On December 26, 2002, Ritts died of complications from pneumonia at the age of 50. According to Ritts' publicist, Herb was HIV-positive, but this particular pneumonia was not PCP (pneumocystis pneumonia), a common opportunistic infection of AIDS. But at the end of the day, his immune system was compromised..
In 1852, Helen Fiske was married to U.S. Army Capt. Edward Bissell Hunt, who died in a military accident in 1863. Her son, Murray Hunt, died in 1854 of a brain disease, then her other son, Rennie Hunt, died of diphtheria in 1865. Fortunately, she had learned from her parents to remain outwardly cheerful and diligent no matter what her circumstances were, and she used constant travel to combat physical and emotional pain.