The phrase "book assets" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial or accounting contexts to refer to the assets that are recorded in a company's books or financial statements.
Example: "The company's book assets increased significantly over the last quarter, reflecting its growth in inventory and receivables."
Alternatives: "recorded assets" or "accounting assets."
It assumes that book assets have no value above their reported cost.
This inadequacy was particularly significant for RBS, given that the purchase of ABN AMRO significantly increased RBS's trading book assets.
In fact, in 2008, losses of £12.2bn arose in the credit trading area alone (a subset of total trading book assets).
For decades this ratio had been stable, below 10% of book assets, though it was over 50% in the 1840s, when banks were apt to fail more often.Nobody can be sure how much capital shareholders now want banks to hold, but Alan Greenspan, a consultant these days, thinks the figure could have grown to 15% of their assets.
It looked at 40 percent of the banking book assets of 32 banks, assumed they each held core Tier 1 ratios of 10 percent on their risk-weighted assets, or R.W.A.'s, and tested how they would fare if each had to assess their assets using the average risk weightings of all the banks in the study.
Customers with blinkbox e-books will see their book assets transfer over to Kobo in the next two to three weeks.
Cochrane's recent finance publications include the book Asset Pricing, and articles on dynamics in stock and bond markets, and the volatility of exchange rates.
His recent awards include the TIAA-CREF Institute PAward. Samuelson Award for his book Asset Pricing, the Chookaszian Endowed Risk Management Prize and Chicago Booth's Faculty Excellence Award for MBA teaching.
The huge writedowns on trading-book assets that defined the first phase of the crisis were horribly unpredictable.
On average, sending firms report higher industry-adjusted operating performance as measured by return on assets (ROA) and higher industry-adjusted valuation as measured by market-to-book assets ratio (M/B).
Since they were held in the trading book, many avoided the rigorous credit process applied to the banking-book assets which might have identified some of the weaknesses.The pressure on the risk department to keep up and approve transactions was immense.
