A negative value of cash is an overdraft. It represents money owed to the bank, usually for overdrawn checks.
Marketable securities can rarely have a negative value. This is because the lowest possible value of most marketable securities is zero; investing in a marketable security should not result in a liability.
Certain financial instruments could have negative values, meaning that the holder of the financial instrument owes an economic sacrifice to its counterparty. This should be recorded as a liability at fair market value.
Interest received on marketable securities is shown as an increase of cash from investing activities in cash flow statement.
marketable securities
Is Current Ratio
Marketable securities are those assets which can easily convert to cash when the need arise to convert them.
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Interest received on marketable securities is shown as an increase of cash from investing activities in cash flow statement.
Marketable securities are assets of company which can be converted immediately to acquire cash as and when needed.
· Cash and near-cash · Account receivables · Other current assets · Marketable securities
DECREASES
Marketable securities are those securitues which can be marketed. eg- we can market the share of any company, debentures can also be marketed, and liquidity of these instruments become very high. while we can't market some instruments, like savings schemes of Post offices and also the liquidity of such instruments become so low. so, cash is different thing and it has nothing to do with marketable securities. because the concept of marketable security is different.Cash can be compare with marketable securities on the basis of its liquidity.
marketable securities
Liquidity and Safety
marketable securities are short term investment by the company to be liquidated when required and until that time earn interest revenue instead of keeping liquid cash in bank.
Is Current Ratio
yes
Marketable securities are those assets which can easily convert to cash when the need arise to convert them.
A cash equivalent is a short-term investment in marketable securities that can be sold very quickly (three days or less in an active exchange); its purpose is to provide some level of return on excess cash that would otherwise be sitting in a bank account. To that extent that the cash equivalent can be thought of as operating cash on hand, and not as an investment. If, on the other hand, a company bought marketable securities to hold for investment purposes over the long-term that would be investing. Given that the purchase of cash equivalents is related to operating activities it is accounted for in cash flows from operating activities. The investment in marketable securities "held for investment" would be treated as an investing activity.