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Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition
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Crash Course in Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis, Second Edition

by Matan Feldman, Arkady Libman
February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 32m
English
Wiley
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Short-Term Debt versus Long-Term Debt

Debt is typically aggregated into several buckets in the balance sheet depending on the duration and nature of the borrowing.

Short-Term Debt

Notes payable are short-term borrowings owed by the company that are due within one year. Current portion of long-term debt is the portion of long-term debt that is due within one year. For example, debt due in five years may have a portion due during each of those years. Each such portion would be considered current portion of long-term debt.

Notice that the two liabilities (notes payable and current portion of long-term debt) stem from financing activities, while all the previous current liabilities stemmed from operating activities. This will prove an important distinction in the cash flow statement and in ratio analysis because cash used or generated from operating activities should be analyzed differently from cash used or generated from changes in debt financing.

Long-Term Debt

Long-term debt is debt that is due in more than one year.

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