Average Annual Current Maturities sounds like a way of measuring the occupancy of a nursing home. But it isn't. Instead, it's a debt term.
It describes the amount of principal on long-term debt a business expects to pay. The figure is calculated by looking at how much time remains on the original loan term. If the number is rising annually, the business is likely taking on more debt. The amount of debt can be compared to the amounts of assets or revenue the company has to determine if the company has too much debt.
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Finance: What is Term To Maturity?12 Views
finance a la shmoop what is term to maturity alright people well it's kind
of a lifecycle of a bond like a bond is issued or sold it has an assay a 15 year [Bond timeline appears]
duration somebody's written that money for 15 years its term to maturity when
it first was issued was 15 years but if you bought that bond nine years into it
some you know maturation process when all the hairs growing in funny places [Hairs grow out of bond]
then at that point it would have six years current maturity well what goes on
between these years interest payments and then eventually at the very end the
issuer pays back the principal to the investor who bought the bond and [Money transfers from issuer to investor]
everyone goes away happy-ish well bonds carry gradations in short medium and
long term terms to maturity like short term generally is considered one to five [Different types of bond appear]
years mid term medium term and something like that is like five to a dozen years
and long term is like up to you know thirty or even a hundred years after
that dozen or so no hard lines here they're all dotted and yeah Disney [Man discussing bonds at DisneyLand]
actually sold a hundred year bonds at one point and they are of course the
happiest bonds on earth [Disney bonds appear]
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