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They say they have 96 billion in cash, yet their financial statements only list 54 billion. Where is the rest? Is it in a subsidiary? If so, aren't there also liabilities in the subsidiary? I don't get it.


I assume you are looking at the 'Total current assets' in the balance sheet of their latest 10Q [1]. Instead, add together 'Cash and cash equivalents', 'Short-term marketable securities' and 'Long-term marketable securities' to get $97,601 million.

[1] http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/1659381773x0x536...


Hey, thanks millions.

Interestingly, the third google result for 'Long-term marketable securities' is the following. Do you personally agree with adding this to cash?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/krantz/2011-08...


I expect that the marketable securities owned Apple are highly liquid, so yeah I'm happy to call it 'cash'.


From reading a bit more about it, I agree. It's not quite 'cash', but it's not the worst nickname for liquid assets.




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