EXERCISE 1-12A (cont.)
d.
Harris Company
Accounting Equation
While creditors get first priority to receive assets in a business
liquidation, this does not mean they cannot lose all or a portion of the
assets they loan a business. In this case creditors are owed $3,600 but
the business has only $2,900 of assets. Since the creditors have first
priority, the entire $2,900 would be distributed to them. In this case
the creditors lose $700 ($3,600 original loan – $2,900 returned). Since
the investors own the business, they suffer the losses earned by the
business. The investors will lose the entire $4,200 they contributed to
the business.