@GroundGold, your right, preferred stocks do guarantee revenue like a bond and some portfolios will contain preferred stock for the long term generation of revenue. However, they are generally not as secure as a bond because they can often be called back by the company if the market rate dr...
Capital assets are significant pieces of property such as homes, cars, investment properties, stocks, bonds, and even collectibles or art. For businesses, a capital asset is an asset with a useful life longer than a year that is not intended for sale in the regular course of the business's...
What are Hard Assets? Discussion Comments Byshell4life— On Jul 05, 2011 @Perdido - A company’s secret recipe is also considered a trade secret. Kentucky Fried Chicken’s recipe is a highly guarded type of intangible asset. Different parts of the secret spice get mixed at different locations...
@bythewell - I wonder if that also has to do with the fact that internet companies probably don't have the kind of fixed assets that, say, a plastics company is going to have. When a plastics company puts a lot of money into their capital assets, those assets are real things, that...
What are Current Assets? What is a Capital Investment? Discussion Comments Byicecream17— On Oct 30, 2010 Cupcake15-Investing in bonds is a great way to obtain income while maintaining a low level of risk. Municipal bonds that invest in government obligations are the safest. These bonds offer...
What items are considered cash? Assets: Cash is the most liquid asset or resource available and this is the reason that it is presented as the first asset on the balance sheet. The cash account may also be called cash and cash equivalents depending on the companies policy. Answer and Explan...
Capital expenditures arelarger, often one-time purchasesof fixed assets that are intended to be used for a long time. If a company buys a new vehicle for the company fleet, the vehicle is considered a capital expenditure. Operating expenditures are smaller, usually more frequent purchases that ...
Repair and upgrades of fixed assets are also considered capital expenditures. What type of investment are capital expenditures? Typical purchases that can be considered capital expenditures are physical assets, such as manufacturing plants, building improvements, equipment, computers, machinery, vehicles, ...
Investments–Investments that management intends to sell in the current period are considered current resources. These investments typically consist of stocks and bonds. Long-Term Assets Land–Property is a resource that is considered long-term in nature because it will be used over time and will ...
CCA was created to account for the fact that business assets tend to wear out and lose value over time. In some cases, they can even become obsolete! These assets are considereddepreciable property. Luckily, you can deduct the depreciation of capital expenses on your taxes over several years....