Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity Quarterly Data
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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.
Liabilities represents obligations of a company arising from past events, the settlement of which is expected to result in an outflow of economic benefits from the entity.
Total obligations incurred as part of normal operations that are expected to be paid during the following twelve months or within one business cycle, if longer.
Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s current liabilities decreased from Q4 2019 to Q1 2020 but then slightly increased from Q1 2020 to Q2 2020.
Noncurrent liabilities
Amount of obligation due after one year or beyond the normal operating cycle, if longer.
Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s noncurrent liabilities increased from Q4 2019 to Q1 2020 and from Q1 2020 to Q2 2020.
Total liabilities
Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all liabilities that are recognized. Liabilities are probable future sacrifices of economic benefits arising from present obligations of an entity to transfer assets or provide services to other entities in the future.
Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s total liabilities increased from Q4 2019 to Q1 2020 and from Q1 2020 to Q2 2020.
Total Kimberly-Clark Corporation stockholders’ equity
Total of all stockholders’ equity (deficit) items, net of receivables from officers, directors, owners, and affiliates of the entity which are attributable to the parent. The amount of the economic entity’s stockholders’ equity attributable to the parent excludes the amount of stockholders’ equity which is allocable to that ownership interest in subsidiary equity which is not attributable to the parent (noncontrolling interest, minority interest). This excludes temporary equity and is sometimes called permanent equity.
Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s total Kimberly-Clark Corporation stockholders’ equity decreased from Q4 2019 to Q1 2020 but then increased from Q1 2020 to Q2 2020 exceeding Q4 2019 level.
