NONCURRENT LIABILITIES Definition

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NONCURRENT LIABILITIES are liabilities that represent money the entity owes one year or more in the future. There are many line items in this category, the most important one being long-term debt.

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DOCUMENTARY CREDIT is an arrangement by banks for settling international business transactions. A letter of credit is a form of documentary credit.

NEGATIVE ASSURANCE, in accounting, is a statement of what the CPA does not know as opposed to what the CPA believes (positive assurance). A statement that the CPA was "not aware of material modifications that should be made to financial statements for them to conform with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles" is negative assurance used in review reports.

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