Section 5—Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

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Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

This section contains information on accounts reported on the Consolidated statement of financial position under "Accounts payable and accrued liabilities". The establishment and operation of these accounts are authorized by Parliament in annual appropriation acts and other legislation. In many cases, these accounts represent accounts payable, accruals and allowances set up at year end under the authority granted to the President of the Treasury Board under the Financial Administration Act.

Table 5.1 presents the year-end balances of accounts payable and accrued liabilities by category. Chart 5A presents accounts payable and accrued liabilities by category at March 31.

Most tables in this section present the continuity of accounts, by showing the opening and closing balances. A narrative description is provided for accounts reported in some tables. Such descriptions follow the same presentation order as their respective tables.

Table summary

The table presents, in dollars, a two-year comparative of the year-end balances of accounts payable and accrued liabilities by category. It consists of three columns: a detailed listing of components; current year ended March 31st; previous year ended March 31. A final row presents the total for this table.

Table 5.1
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
(in dollars)

  March 31, 2016 March 31, 2015
Other accounts payable and accrued liabilities, Table 5.2 45,970,456,943 40,737,427,010
Deferred revenues, Table 5.5 9,981,005,998 9,160,139,012
Amounts payable to taxpayers, Table 5.6 53,697,293,628 56,198,271,060
Environmental liabilities, Table 5.7 13,281,973,449 12,296,144,709
Interest and matured debt, Table 5.9 4,921,554,581 5,239,435,185
Total 127,852,284,599 123,631,416,976

Chart 5A
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities by category at March 31, 2016

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities by category at March 31, 2015. Refer to the text description following the image.

Image description

The chart "Accounts payable and accrued liabilities by category at March 31, 2016" illustrates the composition of accounts payable and accrued liabilities for the current year as well as the relative percentage to the total. The percentage by component is: Amounts payable to taxpayers 42.0%; Environmental liabilities 10.4%; Interest and matured debt 3.8%; Other accounts payable and accrued liabilities 36.0%; and Deferred revenues 7.8%.

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