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

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

And, by its balance sheet at the end of 1933, net quick assets were about $13,500,000.

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

At the end of last year the ratio of quick assets to liabilities was 1.6 to 1; today, 10.6 to 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not employ my entire capital in my cloak business, half of it, or more, being invested in "quick assets."

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham