Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company 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.

Twitter Inc., consolidated balance sheet: liabilities and stockholders’ equity

US$ in thousands

	Dec 31, 2021	Dec 31, 2020	Dec 31, 2019	Dec 31, 2018	Dec 31, 2017
Accounts payable	203,171)	194,281)	161,148)	145,186)	170,969)
Accrued compensation	325,113)	171,681)	190,465)	155,830)	98,553)
Federal Trade Commission accrual	150,000)	150,000)	—)	—)	—)
Deferred revenue	78,541)	58,976)	68,987)	38,949)	27,824)
Accrued tax liabilities	47,830)	40,384)	45,967)	39,729)	36,097)
Accrued publisher, content and ad network costs	45,025)	42,541)	45,265)	33,014)	32,462)
Accrued professional services	41,321)	27,404)	38,596)	—)	—)
Accrued other	230,520)	171,979)	111,613)	138,229)	132,397)
Accrued and other current liabilities	918,350)	662,965)	500,893)	405,751)	327,333)
Convertible notes, short-term	—)	917,866)	—)	897,328)	—)
Operating lease liabilities, short-term	222,346)	177,147)	146,959)	—)	—)
Finance lease liabilities, short-term	—)	567)	23,476)	68,046)	84,976)
Current liabilities	1,343,867)	1,952,826)	832,476)	1,516,311)	583,278)
Convertible notes, long-term	3,559,023)	1,875,878)	1,816,833)	1,730,922)	1,627,460)
Senior notes, long-term	693,996)	692,994)	691,967)	—)	—)
Operating lease liabilities, long-term	1,071,209)	819,748)	609,245)	—)	—)
Finance lease liabilities, long-term	—)	—)	205)	24,394)	81,308)
Deferred and other long-term tax liabilities, net	40,691)	31,463)	24,170)	17,849)	13,240)
Other long-term liabilities	43,531)	36,099)	24,107)	67,502)	59,973)
Long-term liabilities	5,408,450)	3,456,182)	3,166,527)	1,840,667)	1,781,981)
Total liabilities	6,752,317)	5,409,008)	3,999,003)	3,356,978)	2,365,259)
Preferred stock, $0.000005 par value; none issued and outstanding	—)	—)	—)	—)	—)
Common stock, $0.000005 par value	4)	4)	4)	4)	4)
Additional paid-in capital	8,432,112)	9,167,138)	8,763,330)	8,324,974)	7,750,522)
Treasury stock, at cost	(5,295)	(5,297)	—)	—)	—)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(117,320)	(66,094)	(70,534)	(65,311)	(31,579)
Retained earnings (accumulated deficit)	(1,002,302)	(1,125,669)	11,586)	(1,454,073)	(2,671,729)
Stockholders’ equity	7,307,199)	7,970,082)	8,704,386)	6,805,594)	5,047,218)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	14,059,516)	13,379,090)	12,703,389)	10,162,572)	7,412,477)

Based on: 10-K (reporting date: 2021-12-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-12-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2019-12-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2018-12-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2017-12-31).

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Balance sheet item	Description	The company
Current liabilities	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.	Twitter Inc. current liabilities increased from 2019 to 2020 but then slightly decreased from 2020 to 2021 not reaching 2019 level.
Long-term liabilities	Amount of obligation due after one year or beyond the normal operating cycle, if longer.	Twitter Inc. long-term liabilities increased from 2019 to 2020 and from 2020 to 2021.
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.	Twitter Inc. total liabilities increased from 2019 to 2020 and from 2020 to 2021.
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 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.	Twitter Inc. stockholders’ equity decreased from 2019 to 2020 and from 2020 to 2021.

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Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity