Joyce Chun has been employed at the Banka Saltana do well for two years and she has been asked to analyse a company that has been operating in the Isle of Mann for the previous seven years. The company known as Hickman Bikes placed a number of opaque transactions and reported a significant loss in its 2021 end of financial year results. Joyce needs to understand whether the company is financially sound. In your own words, what four characteristics could they apply that would assist in determining whether a company was financially sound?