Monday, 12 July 2010

Assets

What Does Asset Mean?
1. A resource with economic value that an individual, corporation or country owns or controls with the expectation that it will provide future benefit. 

2. A balance sheet item representing what a firm owns.


Assets may be :


  • Physical assets like real estate, gold/jewellery, commodities etc.



  • Financial assets such as fixed deposits with banks, small saving instruments with post offices, insurance/provident/pension fund etc. or securities market related instruments like shares, bonds, debentures etc.

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