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1. ''Financial reporting - balance sheet''. | 1. ''Financial reporting - balance sheet''. | ||
In financial reporting, liabilities are amounts or obligations of a reporting entity arising from past transactions or events, the settlement of which may result in: | In financial reporting, liabilities are present amounts or present obligations of a reporting entity arising from past transactions or events, the settlement of which may result in: | ||
* The transfer or use of assets, for example payments of money | * The transfer or use of assets, for example payments of money | ||
Revision as of 09:44, 26 January 2023
1. Financial reporting - balance sheet.
In financial reporting, liabilities are present amounts or present obligations of a reporting entity arising from past transactions or events, the settlement of which may result in:
- The transfer or use of assets, for example payments of money
- The provision of services or
- Other yielding of economic benefits in the future.
Examples include overdrafts, trade payables, accruals and provisions.
Liabilities are represented in the balance sheet by credit balances.
2. Lending - borrowing.
More generally, liabilities are any obligations or amounts owed to others (whether or not they are obligations of a financial reporting entity).
See also
- Accrual
- Assets
- Balance
- Balance sheet
- Capital
- Compound instrument
- Credit balance
- Disaggregation
- Discharge
- Equity
- Exemption clause
- Fair value
- Financial liability
- Financial reporting
- Indemnity clause
- Interest gap
- Liabilities and equity
- Mismatch
- Net assets
- Net worth
- Off balance sheet finance
- Offset
- Overdraft
- Provision
- Reporting entity
- Trade payables
- Wealth
