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Contradiction

This page says: "Intangible assets are non-physical resources and rights that have a value to the firm because they give the firm an advantage in the marketplace. Intangible assets include goodwill, intellectual property (such as copyrights, trademarks, patents, computer programs), and financial assets, including financial investments, bonds, and companies' shares." While page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_asset says: "The opposite of financial assets is non-financial assets, which include both tangible property (sometimes also called real assets) such as land, real estate or commodities, and intangible assets such as intellectual property, including copyrights, patents, trademarks and data.".

Which one is correct? 84.220.143.95 (talk) 20:48, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

@84.220.143.95 I'm not seeing the contradiction. You could break it into four categories:

• Tangible non-financial assets (e.g., land)
• Tangible financial assets (e.g., money?)
• Intangible non-financial assets (e.g., patent)
• Intangible financial assets (e.g., bonds)

Snowman304|talk 12:35, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Merge proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

Consensus to merge to Asset. While an alternative was floated, all participants were also favourable to the original proposal. Felix QW (talk) 11:15, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

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I propose merging Current asset into Asset. I think the content in Current asset can easily be explained in the context of this article, and merging them would not cause any article-size or weighting problems.

Current asset was also created in 2003 and is still a stub, and the Current asset section in this article already covers much of the same content. Duncnbiscuit (talk) 04:54, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Agree, although alternately it and fixed asset could be merged to create an article explaining that dichotomy, perhaps under the title fixed and current assets or current and fixed assets. But in any case, the main concept is asset and so that should have coverage of these concepts. Arlo James Barnes 22:21, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

I agree with Duncnbiscuit as above, but I would also be happy with Arlo James Barnes's alternative approach. BobKilcoyne (talk) 06:04, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

I also agree. I would call the new article Asset (financial accounting) Geysirhead (talk) 07:30, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Or better Asset (finance). Actually the Asset (economics) already redirected to that article. Geysirhead (talk) 07:42, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

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