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What are Fixed Assets, Tangible Assets and Intangible Assets? Fixed assets are long term, illiquid assets that are necessary for a company’s operation. Accountants usually categorize Fixed Assets as Property, Plant and Equipment (PPE). Tangible Assets include fixed assets as well as other physical assets, such as inventory, vehicles, and other tactile assets. Intangible assets are those that exist as legally enforceable constructs, such as licenses, patents, goodwill, social media influence, branding, etc.
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finance a la shmoop what are fixed assets and no they're not what people
- 00:08
gratefully have when they leave the proctologist office fixed assets are
- 00:13
fixed as in fixed in place hard items things you can kick in you know whiz on [man tried to pull sword out of stone]
- 00:19
general rules for fixed assets one they're not used up in that accounting
- 00:24
year like inventory isn't a fixed asset and two they're typically in physical
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- 00:30
form like a contract or a patent is not a fixed asset and three they're listed [contract and patent docs]
- 00:36
as property plant and equipment on the balance sheet at least usually fixed
- 00:40
assets you have land and you have plants and you have computers the software on
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them all fixed assets and these are tangible ones so then what are
- 00:50
intangible fixed assets well basically things that are not
- 00:54
touchable or physically you know they're not feel about those would be things
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like well our shmoop logo our shmoop guides intellectual property the stuff [Shmoop website images]
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you're watching right now and other copy written material all that kind of stuff
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intangible that famous factory smelting plant we're always talking about here [something gets thrown into industrial smelting pot]
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from up fixed tangible asset the hundred eighty eight acres of the legal pot
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growing farm owned by Mary Jane industries fixed asset the secret recipe [Mary Jane in her pot farm]
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owned by coke which names the ingredient beyond sugar in the fizzy water that
- 01:26
makes coke oh so great intangible fixed asset anyway these big fat fixed assets
- 01:31
carry heft and illiquidity like you can't just quickly sell a hundred eighty
- 01:36
eight acres of a pot farm in well get a whole lot of money for it same deal with [Mary Jane unhappy with her attempt to sell the farm]
- 01:40
the smelting factory or eight miles of styrofoam packing peanuts [shower of packing peanuts]
- 01:45
even if they do as our proctologist says give you you know more cushion for the
- 01:50
pushin don't eat those things [doctor gives man a shot]
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