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Revision as of 10:08, 28 February 2018
1.Financial accounting.
Possessions or resources owned or controlled by a reporting entity as a result of past events and from which future economic benefits are expected to flow to the reporting entity.
Examples include cash, trade receivables, inventory and tangible fixed assets.
Assets are represented in the balance sheet by debit balances.
2.
More generally, possessions or resources (whether or not owned by a financial reporting entity).
See also
- Alienation of assets
- Balance sheet
- Capital
- Chargeable asset
- Current assets
- Debit balance
- Depreciating asset
- Depreciation
- Direct investment
- Disaggregation
- Enhancement expenditure
- Fair value
- Financial asset
- Fungible
- Hire purchase
- Intangible assets
- Interest gap
- Lease
- Liabilities
- Liabilities and equity
- Long life assets
- Mismatch
- Net assets
- Offset
- Sale and leaseback
- Short life asset
- Tangible asset
