Learning Team C
Acc/300
Summary organizations' financial statements:
How is the corporation’s debt securities reported on the financial statements
How is the corporation’s stock investments reported on the financial statements
Why would the corporation invest in stocks and debt securities?
What are the corporation’s relative risks and rewards of equity versus debt securities?
Debt securities are distinct from equity instruments, but both assets often to become into a mutual relationship the financial marketplace. The investors who use in debt-equity products can purchase convertible bonds and preferred shares often referred to as hybrid instruments. The basic agreement between the borrower and the lender used in Debt securities is where the borrower agrees to pay the lender back within a certain period of time known as the maturity date.
The benefit of this type of lending for the borrower is that it allows them to use their cash money needed to operate in the short term because most customers do not pay for their goods on delivery. The lender likes this type of loan because it increases their revenue and gives them more money to invest and lend to other companies. This type of lending does come with risk to the lender in the form of none or late payments. Equity markets are important to the borrower, the lender and to the economy, since they provide companies with funding sources.
Any company that has sufficient levels of funding may use the equity market to finance transaction cost. The equity company is borrowing from their own assets and comes with the risk of losing value for the company and decreasing its equity.
Both of these methods are used and play a role for most companies in the Global Market with the ever expanding competition. When the economy changes and the times are harder equity and debt securities will give the company needed to operate, expand and complete company goals during the economic