asset

French translation: actif

08:36 Jan 3, 2002
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial / economie
English term or phrase: asset
in the buiseness world sum paid for a company or another asset .
saeed
French translation:actif
Explanation:
Any owned physical object (tangible) or right (intangible) having economic value to its owner; an item or source of wealth with continuing benefit for future periods, expressed, for accounting purposes, in terms of its cost, or other value, such as current or replacement cost, and reflected in a balance sheet ... Accounting conventionally recognizes certain sources of wealth as assets but not others. Typical examples of the former are cash, investments, claims against others (receivables), materials, supplies, goods in process of manufacture or held for sale, land, buildings, machinery, tools and other plant assets, prepaid expenses, purchased goodwill, patents, and trademarks.
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SML
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Local time: 17:41
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actif


Explanation:
Any owned physical object (tangible) or right (intangible) having economic value to its owner; an item or source of wealth with continuing benefit for future periods, expressed, for accounting purposes, in terms of its cost, or other value, such as current or replacement cost, and reflected in a balance sheet ... Accounting conventionally recognizes certain sources of wealth as assets but not others. Typical examples of the former are cash, investments, claims against others (receivables), materials, supplies, goods in process of manufacture or held for sale, land, buildings, machinery, tools and other plant assets, prepaid expenses, purchased goodwill, patents, and trademarks.

SML
France
Local time: 17:41
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in pair: 43
Grading comment
thank you .Very helpful

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alain Fontaine
3 mins

agree  Maya Jurt: Saeed est Jabar ou vice versa qui adore le franc symbolique.
12 mins

agree  sujata
1 hr

agree  C Greene
1 hr

agree  Claudia Iglesias: Mais il a demandé l'explication en français.
3 hrs

agree  Fabrizio Palmucci (X)
6 hrs

agree  Thierry LOTTE
9 hrs

agree  thierry2
11 hrs

agree  Fernando Muela Sopeña
21 hrs

agree  JH Trads: attention toutefois, si la somme est 1, alors c'est peut-être un franc symbolique...
1 day 17 hrs
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