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  2. Liquidating distribution - Wikipedia

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    Instead, the entire amount of shareholders' equity is distributed. [2] When a company has more liabilities than assets, equity is negative and no liquidating distribution is made at all. This is usually the case in bankruptcy liquidations. Creditors are always senior to shareholders in receiving the corporation's assets upon winding up. However ...

  3. Asset recovery - Wikipedia

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    Asset recovery, also known as investment or resource recovery, is the process of maximizing the value of unused or end-of-life assets through effective reuse or divestment. While sometimes referred to in the context of a company undergoing liquidation , Asset recovery also can describe the process of liquidating excess inventory , refurbished ...

  4. Asset stripping - Wikipedia

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    Asset stripping refers to selling off a company's assets to improve returns for equity investors, often a financial investor, a "corporate raider", who takes over another company and then auctions off the acquired company's assets. [1] The term is generally used in a pejorative sense as such activity is not considered helpful to the company.

  5. What are assets, liabilities and equity? - AOL

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    How do you identify assets, liabilities and equity? Assets represent the resources your business owns and that help generate revenue. Liabilities are considered the debt or financial obligations ...

  6. Financial statement analysis - Wikipedia

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    The liquidity index shows how quickly a company can turn assets into cash and is calculated by: (Trade receivables x Days to liquidate) + (Inventory x Days to liquidate)/Trade Receivables + Inventory. Profitability ratios are ratios that demonstrate how profitable a company is. A few popular profitability ratios are the breakeven point and ...

  7. Liquidation - Wikipedia

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    Liquidation may either be compulsory (sometimes referred to as a creditors' liquidation or receivership following bankruptcy, which may result in the court creating a "liquidation trust"; or sometimes a court can mandate the appointment of a liquidator e.g. wind-up order in Australia) or voluntary (sometimes referred to as a shareholders ...

  8. Going concern - Wikipedia

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    A going concern is an accounting term for a business that is assumed will meet its financial obligations when they become due. It functions without the threat of liquidation for the foreseeable future, which is usually regarded as at least the next 12 months or the specified accounting period (the longer of the two).

  9. Mark-to-market accounting - Wikipedia

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    For commercial banks and other types of financial services companies, some asset classes are required to be recorded at fair value, such as derivatives and marketable equity securities. For other types of assets, such as loan receivables and debt securities, it depends on whether the assets are held for trading (active buying and selling) or ...