Asset Management

Asset Definition

–noun
1. a useful and desirable thing or quality: Organizational ability is an asset.
2. a single item of ownership having exchange value.
3. assets,
a. items of ownership convertible into cash; total resources of a person or business, as cash, notes and accounts receivable, securities, inventories, goodwill, fixtures, machinery, or real estate (opposed to liabilities ).
b. Accounting. the items detailed on a balance sheet, esp. in relation to liabilities and capital.
c. all property available for the payment of debts, esp. of 1056 a bankrupt or insolvent firm or person.
d. Law. property in the hands of an heir, executor, or administrator, that is sufficient to pay the debts or legacies of a deceased person.

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Management Definition

–noun
1. the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
2 5f . skill in managing; executive ability: great management and b01 tact.
3. the person or persons controlling and directing the affairs of a business, institution, etc.: The store is under new management.
4. executives collectively, considered as a class (distinguished from labor ).

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