KEY TAKEAWAYS
Fixed assets are items, such as property or equipment, a company plans to use over the long-term to help generate income.
Fixed assets are most commonly referred to as property, plant, and equipment (PP&E).
Current assets, such as inventory, are expected to be converted to cash or used within a year.
Noncurrent assets besides fixed assets include intangibles and long-term investments.
Fixed assets are subject to depreciation to help represent the lost value as the assets are used, while intangibles are amortized.
Benefits of Fixed Assets
Information about a corporation's assets helps create accurate financial reporting, business valuations, and thorough financial analysis. Investors and creditors use these reports to determine a company's financial health and to decide whether to buy shares in or lend money to the business. Because a company may use a range of accepted methods for recording, depreciating, and disposing of its assets, analysts need to study the notes on the corporation's financial statements to find out how the numbers were determined.
Examples of Fixed Assets
Fixed assets can include buildings, computer equipment, software, furniture, land, machinery, and vehicles. For example, if a company sells produce, the delivery trucks it owns and uses are fixed assets. If a business creates a company parking lot, the parking lot is a fixed asset. Note that a fixed asset does not necessarily have to be "fixed" in all sense of the word. Some of these types of assets can be moved from one location to another, such as furniture and computer equipment.
Special Considerations
Fixed assets lose value as they age. Because they provide long-term income, these assets are expensed differently than other items. Tangible assets are subject to periodic depreciation, as intangible assets are subject to amortization. A certain amount of an asset's costs is expensed annually. The asset's value decreases along with its depreciation amount on the company's balance sheet. The corporation can then match the asset's cost with its long-term value.
How a business depreciates an asset can cause its book value—the asset value that appears on the balance sheet—to differ from the current market value at which the asset could sell. Land cannot be depreciated unless it contains natural resources, in which case depletion would be recorded.
Fixed Assets vs. Current Assets
Both current assets and fixed assets appear on the balance sheet, with current assets meant to be used or converted to cash in the short-term (less than one year) and fixed assets meant to be utilized for the longer-term (greater than one year). Current assets include cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, inventory, and prepaid expenses. Fixed assets are depreciated, while current assets are not.
Fixed Assets vs. Noncurrent Assets
Fixed assets are a noncurrent asset. Other noncurrent assets include long-term investments and intangibles. Intangible assets are fixed assets, meant to be used over the long-term, but they lack physical existence. Examples of intangible assets include goodwill, copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property. Meanwhile, long-term investments can include bond investments that will not be sold or mature within a year.
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