ACCT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Accounts Payable, Promissory Note, Current Liability

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Identify the sections of a classified balance sheet. 1: use ratios to evaluate a company"s profitability, liquidity and solvency, discuss financial reporting concepts. Reports the assets, liabilities, and equity at a point in time. Groups together similar assets and similar liabilities, using standard classifications. Intangible assets: has value, but you cannot see or touch it. Liquidity: how quickly you can convert something into cash. Assets that a company expects to convert to cash or use up within one year or the operating cycle, whichever is longer. Operating cycle is the average time it takes from the purchase of inventory to the collection of cash from customers. For most businesses, the cycle is less than a year so a one-year cutoff is used. Current assets are listed in the order in which converted to cash (liquidity) Example: tiger company has the following assets at 12/31/17. Investments in stocks & bonds of other companies that are held for more than one year.

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