Build the working capital figure
Exercise and reference answers
- Start
- Item
- Current assets
- Value
- 500
- Steps
- Operation
- sub
- Item
- Less current liabilities
- Value
- 250
- Operation
- sub
- Item
- Less short-term loans due
- Value
- 50
- Other choices
- Explanation
- Long-term debt is not a current liability, so it stays out.
- Item
- Less long-term debt
- Explanation
- Revenue is not a balance sheet item and does not belong here.
- Item
- Add annual revenue
- Instructions
- Tap the steps in order to build the total. Wrong taps explain themselves.
- Result
- Working capital
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Principles of Finance (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 'Measures of Financial Health'_