Nintendo founding family looking to sell shares

[TheLastStarFighter]

Kresnik said:

TheLastStarFighter said:

They have $4.7 Billion USD in pure cash, but around another $4 Billion in other liquid assets.  That's where they get it from.  

I do understand that, but this isn't the first article I've seen saying Nintendo have that much "in the bank", which isn't really true unless they realise the value of their liquid assets, which presumably are acutally being used for other things.  They could start selling their properties as those are assets too but that doesn't mean they have cash in the bank.

Regarding the debts, haven't studied that part of the balance sheet so much.  Looks like you're right, they don't have much in terms of debts from loans or the like; it's all tied up in taxes and such.

It is acceptable for a writer to say they have $8 billion or so in the bank.  The additional assets they are referring to are not things like buildings or other physical assets, but rather things such as cash which has been invested. It is more accurate for the writer to say they have $8 billion than $4 billion, though if they were being technical they could break it down.  But if Nintendo wanted to blow $8 billion to acquire something, or to pay the bills or whatever, they could do so without selling property or borrowing, and they could do it quickly.  Again, to compare to an individual, it's like if you or I had 100k in cash in our checking account and another 100k in an investment account.  We would say we have 200k "in the bank", which is how people (accurately) describe Nintendo's financial situation.