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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a current asset" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in financial contexts to refer to assets that are expected to be converted into cash or used up within one year.
Example: "The company's balance sheet shows a significant increase in a current asset, indicating improved liquidity."
Alternatives: "a short-term asset" or "an immediate asset".
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The illusion is this: A government bond represents both a current asset and a future liability, yet for most people, those future tax payments feel less concrete and less real than the dollars they're holding in a money market account.
Typically, inventory is a current asset.
It's just like the current ratio, but inventory stores aren't counted as a current asset.
Non-current assets are defined as any asset which is not a current asset.
Add up all accounts which meet the definition of a current asset to come up with a subtotal.
In accounting terminology, any asset that the company has held for fewer than 12 months is a current asset.
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Using the example above, a current assets ratio of 2.08 is probably healthy.
You will receive the payments against the invoices in the normal fashion, but instead of having the payment go to the normal " Undeposited Funds " account, you will have to post it to a new Other Current Asset account called " Due from Factor".
As the receivables are projected to be high in the first year, and stem from prime quality customers, commercial banking lines of credit (or A/R factoring) should be easily obtainable supported by this current asset without a need for reliance on inventory.
This bears heavily on both the recovery and current asset underpinning for the quoted housebuilders.
What's your current asset allocation?
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