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assets
A firm's productive resources. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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Resources owned and controlled by a company. Technically defined as access to future economic benefits as a result of past events or transactions. Assets are shown on a company's balance sheet. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary

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   Assets are tangible items of value to a business such as factories, machinery and financial instruments, and intangible items such as goodwill, the title of a newspaper or a product's brand name. They appear on the company's balance sheet.

Financial and business terms. 2012.