Sentence examples for doubtful assets from inspiring English sources

European Union policy makers decided last month to break with tradition and publish the stress test results bank by bank and for a much bigger group of lenders than planned, hoping that they could reproduce the effect of the U.S. tests, which was seen to provide clarity about doubtful assets and a strict regime for how to handle problems.

While it enhances current earnings, capitalizing expenses creates doubtful assets on the balance sheet.

; While it enhances current earnings, capitalizing expenses creates doubtful assets on the balance sheet.; Last year, for example, 10% of SystemSoft's revenues came from Intel.

To require the writing off of doubtful or worthless assets upon the books and balance sheets of Federalreserve banks.

But whether they will make a success of managing their newly acquired assets is doubtful.

This included taking much of the company's debt off its books in return for assets of doubtful value, and giving Harken a share in their partnership almost twice as large as its contribution to the partnership's capital.

Sometimes the quality of the assets sold was doubtful (a block of Internet shares, say); sometimes the third-party entity would pay using a loan from Enron, which then booked the interest on the loan as income.

But with investors increasingly viewing European sovereign debt as a toxic asset, it seems doubtful that the markets will truly calm down until both Italy and Greece do more than apply fiscal bandages and until the European Union can put more firepower in its bailout mechanisms.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts is a contra-asset account.

Doubtful, due to their lack of assets.

The German bank, the HVB Group, reported a second consecutive quarterly profit as it sold assets and set aside less money for doubtful loans.