EXERCISE 1-12B (cont.)
h.
Clayton 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 $1,200 but
the business has only $1,000 of assets. Since the creditors have first
priority, the entire $1,000 would be distributed to them. In this case
the creditors lose $200 ($1,200 original loan – $1,000 returned). Since
the investors own the business, they suffer the losses earned by the
business. The investors will lose the entire $1,700 they contributed to
the business.