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e. An intangible asset is an asset that lacks physical substance. Examples are patents, copyright, franchises, goodwill, trademarks, and trade names, as well as any form of digital asset such as software. This is in contrast to physical assets (machinery, buildings, etc.) and financial assets (government securities, etc.).
It is anything (tangible or intangible) that can be used to produce positive economic value. Assets represent value of ownership that can be converted into cash (although cash itself is also considered an asset). [1] The balance sheet of a firm records the monetary [2] value of the assets owned by that firm.
Tangible property. In law, tangible property is property that can be touched, and includes both real property and personal property (or moveable property), and stands in distinction to intangible property. [citation needed] In English law and some Commonwealth legal systems, items of tangible property are referred to as choses in possession (or ...
Intangible property is used in distinction to tangible property. It is useful to note that there are two forms of intangible property: legal intangible property (which is discussed here) and competitive intangible property (which is the source from which legal intangible property is created but cannot be owned, extinguished, or transferred).
Personal property, or possessions, includes "items intended for personal use" (e.g., one's toothbrush, clothes, and vehicles, and rarely, money). The owner has a distributive right to exclude others (i.e. the right to command a "fair share" of personal property). Private property is a social relationship between the owner and persons deprived ...
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by society. [ 1]
Goodwill is a special type of intangible asset that represents that portion of the entire business value that cannot be attributed to other income producing business assets, tangible or intangible. [3] For example, a privately held software company may have net assets (consisting primarily of miscellaneous equipment and/or property, and ...
Firm-based resources may be tangible or intangible. Tangible resources include: physical assets such as financial resources and human resources including real estate, raw materials machinery, plant, inventory, brands, patents and trademarks and cash.