Build the net working capital
Exercise and reference answers
- Start
- Item
- Current assets
- Value
- 1000000
- Steps
- Operation
- sub
- Item
- Less accounts payable
- Value
- 500000
- Operation
- sub
- Item
- Less other current debts
- Value
- 250000
- 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 the annual revenue
- Instructions
- Tap the steps in order to build the total. Wrong taps explain themselves.
- Result
- Net working capital
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Principles of Finance (CC BY 4.0), Ch 19 'The Importance of Trade Credit and Working Capital in Planning', sections 19.1-19.5_