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liquid asset a cash asset or an asset that is easily converted into cash. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
liquidator
liquidator : one that liquidates ;esp : an individual appointed by law to liquidate assets compare receiver ...
Quick-asset ratio
Quick-asset ratio, means the ratio between an entity's current or liquid assets (such as cash and accounts receivable) and its current liabilities. Also termed quick ratio; acid-test ratio, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1260....
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies.The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company is usually wound up by the Court. In other cases the winding-up is usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not of certain value to be...
Liquidator
Liquidator. A person appointed to conduct the winding-up of a company under the (English) Companies Act, 1929. Liquidators are of three kinds:--(1) Appointed by the court in a winding-up by the Court. pending appointment the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy is to act as Official Receiver and Liquidator in the winding-up (s. 185). By s. 186, in England, liquidators other than the Official Receiver must provide security to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade. His duties comprise the collection of the company's property, and this property or any part of it may vest in him on his application. He may bring or defend actions relating to that property in his own official name (s. 190). Powers which he may exercise subject to the sanction of the court or a Committee of Inspection are setout in s. 191(1); sub-s. (2) of that section gives a list of powers for which such sanction is not required. The duties of a liquidator are to collect, administer, and distribute the assets, having regard to ...
liquidate
liquidate -dat·ed -dat·ing vt 1 : to determine by agreement or litigation the precise amount of ;also : to settle (a debt) by payment or other adjustment 2 a : to determine the liabilities and apportion the assets of esp. in bankruptcy or dissolution [ a corporation] compare bankruptcy b : to convert (as assets) into cash [ an estate] vi : to liquidate something (as a corporation) liq·ui·da·tion [li-kwə-dā-shən] n ...
liquid
liquid 1 a : consisting of cash or capable of ready conversion into cash [ assets] b : capable of covering current liabilities out of current assets esp. in a rapid manner [a insurer] 2 : of or relating to a security or commodity with enough shares or units outstanding to hinder significant price variation from large transactions ...
current assets
current assets Assets of a business that can be liquidated within a relatively short period of time ...
asset
asset [back-formation from assets, singular, sufficient property to pay debts and legacies, from Anglo-French asetz, from Old French asez enough] 1 : the entire property of a person, business organization, or estate that is subject to the payment of debts used in pl. compare equity 2 : an item of property owned admitted asset : an asset allowed by law to be included in determining the financial condition of an insurance company compare nonadmitted asset in this entry appointive asset : an asset in an estate that is to be distributed under a power of appointment capital asset : a tangible or intangible long-term asset esp. that is not regularly bought or sold as part of the owner's business ;specif : any asset classified as a capital asset by law (as section 1221 of the Internal Revenue Code) cur·rent asset : a short-term asset (as inventory, an account receivable, or a note) that can be quickly converted into cash equitable asset : an asset esp. in an estate that is sub...
Commercial assets
Commercial assets, of a building society comprise the society's class 1, class 2 and 3 assets. The aggregate of a society's class 1, class 2 and class 3 assets constitutes the total commercial assets of the society. Class 1 assets comprise class 1 advances secured on land in the United Kingdom or on land in the Isle of Man, the Channel Island or Gibraltar. Class 2 assets comprise class 2 advances secured on land in the United Kingdom or on land in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands or Gibraltar. Class 3 assets comprise loons for mobile homes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 762, p. 464....
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