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What is Watered Capital?

Business Habit ⋅ @businesshabit ⋅ Oct 23, 2014

It refers to that portion of the share capital of a joint-stock company. Which is not represented by any tangible or realizable assets; thus the amount paid for goodwill is known as watered capital. Watered capital is the value of the eroded capital on account of a company continuously incurring losses.

The accumulated losses and other intangible assets are viewed as a percentage of the paid-up capital and watered capital is the residual part of the paid-up capital after accounting the number of losses.

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