Bad Title

  

A bad title for an album is Fishbone's 1993 classic "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe."

In FinanceLand, a bad title is a title (be it to a house, car, motorcycle, etc.) that does not grant ownership to its holder due to unsatisfied legal or financial problems. Having a bad title can prevent the titleholder from selling the asset.

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Finance: What are Fixed Assets, Tangible...32 Views

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finance a la shmoop what are fixed assets and no they're not what people

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gratefully have when they leave the proctologist office fixed assets are

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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]

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general rules for fixed assets one they're not used up in that accounting

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year like inventory isn't a fixed asset and two they're typically in physical

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form like a contract or a patent is not a fixed asset and three they're listed [contract and patent docs]

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as property plant and equipment on the balance sheet at least usually fixed

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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

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intangible fixed assets well basically things that are not

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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

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makes coke oh so great intangible fixed asset anyway these big fat fixed assets

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carry heft and illiquidity like you can't just quickly sell a hundred eighty

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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]

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the smelting factory or eight miles of styrofoam packing peanuts [shower of packing peanuts]

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even if they do as our proctologist says give you you know more cushion for the

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pushin don't eat those things [doctor gives man a shot]

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