Quote from: Harrisonimo on October 25, 2018, 11:47:16 PM

Quote from: Stedsm on September 10, 2018, 01:18:47 PM

I'm unable to find a precise classification and/or similarity between the two words - debt and loan. Should we consider debts (where people are helped financially or in a way they want that help - and they need to pay it off either in instalments or at a go, be it through paper money or by any other means according to the agreement) as loans OR Is there anything that could help us classify both these terms and show some dissimilarities and differences between them?

One thing I have learned overtime is to see this from different perspective; but in simple terms, I do see it as a debt! Now depending on what you are using the cash to do and not using it on frivolous spendings. Your view as seeing the loan as debt will make you eager to want to pay it back/off soonest.

in a balance sheet, debt is categorized as passive assets, and debt itself has a repayment period, depending on the rules as well. sometimes paying off debt immediately, instead making our name worse in bank