Current Liabilities And Long Term Liabilities

Current liabilities are defined as: “Debts due to be paid with cash or with goods and services within one year, or within the entity’s operating cycle if the cycle is longer than a year.” (Hongren, Harrison & Oliver, 2012) These liabilities fit into three categories: Current liabilities of known amount; current liabilities that must be estimated; and contingent liabilities. According to the matching principle of accounting, expenses and revenues need to be reported during the same period that they are earned. This can be difficult if the exact amounts are not known. This is the purpose behind estimated and contingent liabilities. In order to provide accurate financial reports companies must record revenues and

31.  Current liabilities are amounts that must be paid within a short period of time, usually less than a year.  TRUE

After reviewing the Balance sheet I have a concern regarding the Current and short term liabilities. Creditors/ trade payable is payment yet to be made for goods already received, if this continues to rise then it will effect the business profit and less stock will have to be ordered so repayments can be made. Bank overdrafts also continued to rise and in the long-term the business will be paying greater interest, which will again eat into the profit. Both increased quite a great deal from the last year-end. If this continues then the business will get into bad debts and owe too much that it will end up having to sale its assets to survive. Finally I can see that due to the above issues and other issues the net current assets/ working capital has decreased so therefore the business is less value then it was a year ago. If the business is worth £1 million now, this could soon decrease within another year.

A current liability is defined as a liability that must be paid within one accounting period.

It is a liability as it's not owned by the company, it is owed to another company and as it does not belong to them, could not be used to pay off any debts if required. Another example of a non-current liability would be a loan or overdraft as these are long-term liabilities not paid off within the 12-month period. (363)

Liabilities and Financial Analysis. Discuss current liabilities and long-term liabilities. What are the differences between the two? Illustrate your understanding of liabilities, making sure to identify major types of current liabilities. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts

Accounts payables are short term debts a company owes to its creditors. Notes payables are usually written contracts and long term debts companies have promises to pay its creditors. Accrued expenses are recognized by a company before they are paid for. An example of this would be a tax bill received from the town or city the company is located in. While all of these are recognized as current liabilities on a company’s financial reports they are all recorded in different time frames. Account payables are recognized when they are incurred and the payment of them is also due at the same time. Where both Notes payables and Accrued expenses are shown in the current liabilities but are due at a future date

The current ratio shows the level to which the rights of short-term creditors are covered by assets that are expected to be changed to cash in a period consistent to the maturity of the liabilities.

Liabilities consist of the total debts and financial obligations a business owe its creditors. They consist of accounts payable, expenses, income tax payable, employee benefits payable, and other liabilities (Kimmel, Weygandt,& Kieso, 2010). Apples total liabilities for 2012 were $57,854,000,000. For the previous year, Apples total liabilities were $39,756,000,000.

This account only made up 8% of the current liabilities for this year. These two facts show that the accounts payable does not seem to be a significant form of financing. The company is not relying heavily upon accounts receivable and is probably not having a difficult time generating cash to pay to suppliers.

Liability Account - When you receive a service from another company this becomes a liability account. If a company purchases supplies, they then have an obligation to repay, making it an account payable. (MyAccountingCourse.com, n.d.)

Liabilities. Accounts and notes payable increased proportionately to the net sales increasing total current liabilities by the same proportions. Mortgage payable decreased consistently over the three years as did other long term liabilities. Overall, liabilities continued to decrease over the three year period.

The current assets are those which are readily convertible into cash and cash equivalents due to their highly liquid nature and also form part of working capital of the company’s operations. However, the long term assets in contrast are not liquid because since they have a useful life of more than a year and hence their full value cannot be easily realized within

Classify the following as long term or current liabilities: Accounts Payable, Accrued Liabilities, Note Payable with total balance due in 5 years, Mortgage Loan with payments made monthly over 5 years.

The role of a liability and what it means to the business as a whole is different for every business. What remains the same is the definition. A liability is a company’s legal debts or obligations that arise during the course of business operations and is recorded on the balance sheet. Liabilities can include many things to a business, such as, loans, accounts payable, mortgages, accrued expenses, etc. All the named liability accounts are just fancy for any money or service that is owed to another party. There are two types of liabilities, current liability and long term liability. Current liability is debt payable within one year and long-term liability is debt payable over more than a year. Current liability includes