Self-Liquidating Loans

The term “self-liquidating loans” is banker slang. It refers to a loan that is used to generate proceeds that are in turn used to repay the loan. Basically, a borrower takes out a loan used to finance business activities that generate revenue. Then the borrower takes the revenue generated from those business activities and uses it to repay the money that was borrowed to finance the activities.

Self-Liquidating Loan Example

The term can apply to a company that experiences seasonal fluctuations in business. During the busy season when business is booming the company needs to borrow money to finance short-term assets such as inventory and accounts receivable. The company borrows money to buy more materials to take advantage of the increasing demand of the busy season.
Then when business slows down the company will have less of a need for borrowed funds to finance short-term assets like inventory accounts – the need for financing will decline as the need for inventory declines. At this point, the company will have generated profits from the busy season, and will now be able to use those profits to repay the loans it took out to finance operations during the busy season. And this is called a self-liquidating loan.

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Source:

Higgins, Robert C. “Analysis for Financial Management”, McGraw-Hill Irwin, New York, NY, 2007.

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