Assets help keep a business afloat. They can be sold during lean times, used as collateral during expansion and help produce a healthy balance sheet. Business assets range from cash on hand to ...

Assets are quantifiable items — tangible or intangible — that add to your company’s value. Liabilities are what your company owes to others, whether that’s a vendor or a bank that issued a loan.

The tangible common equity ratio is the ratio of a company’s tangible equity to its tangible assets. It doesn’t follow generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, and hence the method of ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Late last year, the IRS released a new set of temporary regulations on tangible asset costs that will likely affect most businesses, especially manufacturers and distributors. With permanent ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. "Tangible personal property" is a tax term that refers to personal property that can be felt ...

When advising business owners, one of the trickiest topics to explain is goodwill and intangible assets. Clients often ask: If these values don’t show up on my balance sheet, do they even exist?

Let’s start by defining wealth, a key economic concept. That’s the easy part. Then we’ll examine a couple of ways to calculate it and to use U.S. statistics on wealth published by the Federal Reserve.

Businesses today have challenges capturing innovation and even more of an uphill battle with intangible asset valuation and management. These non-tangible assets are over 80% of the average business’ ...