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Cash is added as asset and amount of loan is recored as a liability.
Loan stock is considered a liability in a corporate balance sheet. This is because it represents borrowed funds that need to be repaid by the company to the lenders. It does not represent ownership or equity in the company.
If you pay down a loan you are reducing and asset, but you are also reducing a liability, so your balance sheet would still be in balance. So to answer your question yes it does affect your assets. It reduces your cash.
loans payable apear under liability on the balance sheet.
Loan is on balance sheet
Liability
Loan acquired to buy an asset is a liability of business so interest incurred on that loan is also part of that loan and that's why it is also the liability of business.
Loan repayment will reduce the amount of loan liability from liability side of balance sheet as well as reduce the cash or bank account as the payment is made through bank or cash. General entry is as follows [Debit] Long-term loan xxxx [Credit] cash / bank xxxx
Bank loan is a liability for business not an asset for business.
No, it is a liability and goes on the right side of a balance sheet.
Loan interest payable is not shown in income statement rather it is shown in liability side of balance sheet in current liability section.
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