Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

The balance sheet provides creditors, investors, and analysts with information on company resources (assets) and its sources of capital (its equity and liabilities). It normally also provides information about the future earnings capacity of a company assets as well as an indication of cash flows that may come from receivables and inventories.

Liabilities represents obligations of a company arising from past events, the settlement of which is expected to result in an outflow of economic benefits from the entity.

Cadence Design Systems Inc., consolidated balance sheet: liabilities and stockholders’ equity

US$ in thousands

	Dec 31, 2024	Dec 31, 2023	Dec 31, 2022	Dec 31, 2021	Dec 31, 2020
Revolving credit facility	—)	—)	100,000)	—)	—)
Current portion of long-term debt	—)	349,285)	—)	—)	—)
Trade accounts payable	5,555)	91,194)	47,113)	—)	—)
Payroll and payroll-related accruals	335,232)	294,108)	294,620)	254,090)	219,289)
Other accrued operating liabilities	291,905)	191,256)	215,425)	163,193)	130,662)
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	632,692)	576,558)	557,158)	417,283)	349,951)
Current portion of deferred revenue	737,413)	665,024)	690,538)	553,942)	446,857)
Current liabilities	1,370,105)	1,590,867)	1,347,696)	971,225)	796,808)
Long-term portion of deferred revenue	115,168)	98,931)	91,524)	101,148)	107,064)
Long-term debt, excluding current portion	2,476,183)	299,771)	648,078)	347,588)	346,793)
Long-term operating lease liabilities	108,893)	115,358)	139,337)	107,121)	113,916)
Other accrued liabilities	230,555)	160,293)	165,323)	118,542)	93,186)
Other long-term liabilities	339,448)	275,651)	304,660)	225,663)	207,102)
Long-term liabilities	2,930,799)	674,353)	1,044,262)	674,399)	660,959)
Total liabilities	4,300,904)	2,265,220)	2,391,958)	1,645,624)	1,457,767)
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value; none issued or outstanding	—)	—)	—)	—)	—)
Common stock, $0.01 par value	4,181,737)	3,166,964)	2,765,673)	2,467,701)	2,217,939)
Treasury stock, at cost	(5,309,579)	(4,604,323)	(3,824,163)	(2,740,003)	(2,057,829)
Retained earnings	5,991,868)	4,936,384)	3,895,240)	3,046,288)	2,350,333)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(190,448)	(94,754)	(91,637)	(33,311)	(17,425)
Stockholders’ equity	4,673,578)	3,404,271)	2,745,113)	2,740,675)	2,493,018)
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	8,974,482)	5,669,491)	5,137,071)	4,386,299)	3,950,785)

Based on: 10-K (reporting date: 2024-12-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2023-12-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-12-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-12-31), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-12-31).

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Balance sheet item	Description	The company
Current liabilities	Total obligations incurred as part of normal operations that are expected to be paid during the following twelve months or within one business cycle, if longer.	Cadence Design Systems Inc. current liabilities increased from 2022 to 2023 but then slightly decreased from 2023 to 2024 not reaching 2022 level.
Long-term liabilities	Amount of obligation due after one year or beyond the normal operating cycle, if longer.	Cadence Design Systems Inc. long-term liabilities decreased from 2022 to 2023 but then increased from 2023 to 2024 exceeding 2022 level.
Total liabilities	Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all liabilities that are recognized. Liabilities are probable future sacrifices of economic benefits arising from present obligations of an entity to transfer assets or provide services to other entities in the future.	Cadence Design Systems Inc. total liabilities decreased from 2022 to 2023 but then increased from 2023 to 2024 exceeding 2022 level.
Stockholders’ equity	Total of all stockholders’ equity (deficit) items, net of receivables from officers, directors, owners, and affiliates of the entity which are attributable to the parent. The amount of the economic entity stockholders’ equity attributable to the parent excludes the amount of stockholders’ equity which is allocable to that ownership interest in subsidiary equity which is not attributable to the parent (noncontrolling interest, minority interest). This excludes temporary equity and is sometimes called permanent equity.	Cadence Design Systems Inc. stockholders’ equity increased from 2022 to 2023 and from 2023 to 2024.

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Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity