quick assets

American  

plural noun

Accounting.

1. liquid assets including cash, receivables, and marketable securities.

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quick assets British  

plural noun

1. accounting assets readily convertible into cash; liquid current assets

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Etymology

Origin of quick assets

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

It had on August 2 about $1,613,000 of cash and accounts receivable, quick assets, which amounted to only about 40% of its quick liabilities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sisto expanded tiny Barium Steel rapidly by buying other small steel companies, paying for them chiefly out of their own quick assets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under that bond indenture, Baldwin agreed to maintain at all times net quick assets at least equal to its total funded debt.

From Time Magazine Archive

But their quick assets in the U. S. alone were sufficient to last them four years at the 1940 deficit rate.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this I pay, say, three and a half or four per cent., for I am a desirable customer at the banks; and, as my quick assets bring me an average of five per cent.,

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham