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Assets
A firm's productive resources.
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Assets
Refer to properties owned or are due to a person or organization. Assets are typically viewed in three categories. These three classifications are: Current, Fixed or Long-term, and Intangible.
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Assets
An asset is something which a person or firm owns that is of value. For banks their main assets will be cash and any investments they have (including their holdings of government securities). For individuals, their assets may be either cash in the bank, properties or perhaps other financial assets l...
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Assets
Anything owned or controlled that has value, but usually, for investment trusts, it refers to equities, bonds and cash. The underlying assets of an investment trust will vary depending on the company's objective.
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[n] - anything of material value or usefulness
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Assets
The things that you own, such as buildings, vehicles, shares and money in the bank. The opposite of your assets are your liabilities.
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Assets
In accounting terms, an asset is an item on the balance sheets of a company that has future economic value.Â
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Assets
Anything that is owned by the individual or company which has a value either now or will have a value at some time in the future. Examples include vehicles, shares, money in the bank or in hand, property and book debts.
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Assets
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Assets
can be either financial or non-financial. Financial assets include monetary gold, bank deposits, IMF Special Drawing Rights. Loans granted bonds, shares, accounts receivable, and the value of the government`s stake in public corporations. Non-financial assets consist of fixed capital (such as buildi...
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Assets
Any description of property or rights other than land or an interest in land.
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Fixed assets are land, machines and buildings; current assets consist of cash, money owed, stock, investments and work in progress; intangible assets are goodwill, trade marks, patents, etc; liquid assets are funds kept in cash or in a form that can be quickly and easily turned into cash.
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Assets
As'sets noun plural [ Old French asez enough, French assez , from Latin ad + satis , akin to Greek ... enough, Goth. saps full. Confer Assai , Satisfy .] 1. (Law) (a) Property o...
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assets
noun anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
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Assets
All real or intellectual property owned by the enterprise that has a positive financial value. On a Balance Sheet, a summary list of the property and things owned.
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Assets
A firm`s productive resources.
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Assets
• (n. pl.) Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts. • (n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors ...
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ASSETS
Property owned, in this case by an insurance company, including stocks, bonds, and real estate. Insurance accounting is concerned with solvency and the ability to pay claims. State insurance laws therefore require a conservative valuation of assets, prohibiting insurance companies from listing asset...
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Assets
any item with measurable value.
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Assets
Any item of economic value owned by an individual or corporation, especially that which could be converted to cash. Examples are cash, securities, accounts receivable
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assets
Any item of economic value - a house, a car, jewelry, stocks and bonds, cash, office equipment and other kinds of property. Sometimes the word is used in a different sense, to refer to a positive characteristic - like beauty, strength or wisdom....
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Assets
Assets (from the French, assez, enough), are property or goods available for the payment of a bankrupt or deceased person's obligations. Assets are personal or real, the former comprising all goods, chattels, etc, devolving upon the executor as saleable to discharge debts and legacies. In commerce a...
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Assets
Anything of value. Any interest in real or personal property which can be appropriated for the payment of debt.
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Assets
These are items you own which have monetary value for example your home, your car and any savings you have.
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