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Intuitive Surgical Inc. (ISRG)
Balance Sheet: Assets
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The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company’s resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company’s assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.
Assets are resources controlled by the company as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the entity.
Intuitive Surgical Inc., consolidated balance sheet: assets
US$ in thousands
Based on: 10-K (filing date: 2019-02-04), 10-K (filing date: 2018-02-02), 10-K (filing date: 2017-02-06), 10-K (filing date: 2016-02-02), 10-K (filing date: 2015-02-06).
Assets: Selected Items
| Balance sheet item | Description | The company |
|---|---|---|
| Current assets | Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are expected to be realized in cash, sold, or consumed within one year (or the normal operating cycle, if longer). Assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by an entity as a result of past transactions or events. | Intuitive Surgical Inc.’s current assets declined from 2016 to 2017 but then increased from 2017 to 2018 exceeding 2016 level. |
| Property, plant, and equipment, net | Amount after accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization of physical assets used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include, but are not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, and furniture and fixtures. | Intuitive Surgical Inc.’s property, plant, and equipment, net increased from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018. |
| Noncurrent assets | Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are expected to be realized in cash, sold or consumed after one year or beyond the normal operating cycle, if longer. | Intuitive Surgical Inc.’s noncurrent assets declined from 2016 to 2017 but then increased from 2017 to 2018 exceeding 2016 level. |
| Total assets | Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all assets that are recognized. Assets are probable future economic benefits obtained or controlled by an entity as a result of past transactions or events. | Intuitive Surgical Inc.’s total assets declined from 2016 to 2017 but then increased from 2017 to 2018 exceeding 2016 level. |
Current Assets: Selected Items
| Balance sheet item | Description | The company |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and cash equivalents | Amount of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Excludes cash and cash equivalents within disposal group and discontinued operation. | Intuitive Surgical Inc.’s cash and cash equivalents declined from 2016 to 2017 but then increased from 2017 to 2018 not reaching 2016 level. |
| Short-term investments | Amount of investments including trading securities, available-for-sale securities, held-to-maturity securities, and short-term investments classified as other and current. | Intuitive Surgical Inc.’s short-term investments declined from 2016 to 2017 but then increased from 2017 to 2018 exceeding 2016 level. |
| Accounts receivable, net of allowances | Amount due from customers or clients, within one year of the balance sheet date (or the normal operating cycle, whichever is longer), for goods or services (including trade receivables) that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to the estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection. | Intuitive Surgical Inc.’s accounts receivable, net of allowances increased from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018. |
| Inventory | Amount after valuation and LIFO reserves of inventory expected to be sold, or consumed within one year or operating cycle, if longer. | Intuitive Surgical Inc.’s inventory increased from 2016 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2018. |