Capital asset

Anita Desai's first novel Cry, the Peacock (1963), is about Maya, a dissenting female who battles against three traditional forces in her life: male authority expressed by her husband; her female friends who play stereotypical submissive-wife roles; and her religion's beliefs in karma and detachment. Being over-sensitive, sentimental and imaginative Maya is a total contrast to the rational, logical, Gautam. By making a beautiful use of the symbolic technique, Anita Desai has delved deep into the…

Question 2 Working capital management looks at the relationship between a firm's short-term assets and its short-term liabilities. The main goal of working capital management is to ensure that a firm has adequate cash flow for their operations and has the most productive use of their resources. Net working capital is the excess of current assets over current liabilities. Since current assets can be financed by either current liabilities or long term funds, the excess of current assets must be…

from the sale of painting to be chargeable as capital gain in the hand of assessee? Law:  Section 6 of the Income Tax Law defines the assessable income. According to it, assessable income of the taxpayer for the relevant income year means the aggregate of ordinary income and taxable statutory income.  S104 of the Income Tax Act provides that the assessee must include in his/her assessable income the net amount generated by way of sale of capital asset held by him/her during the income year…

#1: Introduction to Capital Gains Question #1: What are the potential positive tax implications for transactions that qualify for capital gains treatment? Answer: If a taxpayer's transactions are deemed to be capital in nature, then a tax benefit may be present. Specifically, capital gains that are long-term in nature are subject to the preferential capital gains tax rate. In order for transactions gain to be listed as long term, typically the seller had to hold the asset for more than one…

difference between capital and revenue items of expenditure and income In business, it is very common to spend money in order to make profit. A large amount of expenditure is incurred by the company for various purposes to get high returns. The expenditure has been broadly divided into two categories – Capital and Revenue. Prima facie, these two terms seem alike, but they are not similar.Capital Expenditure is an expense generally made to acquire an asset or improve the capacity of the asset.…

Cycle Theory Cash conversion theory was propounded by Blinder and Maccini (2001), cash conversion cycle theory is the time it takes a company to convert its resource inputs into cash. It evaluates how effectively a firm is managing its working capital. In most cases, a company acquires inventory on credit, which results in accounts payable. A firm can also sell products on credit, which results in accounts receivable. Cash, therefore, is not involved until the firm pays the accounts payable…

(iii) Cash ratio and (iv) Networking capital ratio. Current Ratio: Current ratio is calculated by dividing current assets by current liabilities. Current assets Current Ratio = Current Liabilities…

HR Accounting: Introduction and Overview HR Accounting deals with holistic performance by quantifying the value of people. It mainly focuses on valuing human capital and maximizing the value. Accounting is majorly four things • Recording: Recording all transactions (inflows and outflows) • Classifying: total amount, assets, value etc. – preparing a ledger or trial balance • Summarizing: To find out the profits and losses, listing out incomes and expenses • Interpretation of result: comparing…

bank can be classified as insolvent. The first is if the worth of the bank 's assets and less that the worth of the bank 's liabilities. The second is if the bank cannot pay its debts, even if the bank 's assets are worth more than their liabilities, this is then a problem with the bank 's liquidity. When analyzing the profitability or worth of a bank, book value is commonly used to understand the net worth of all the assets and liabilities that a bank holds on its balance sheet. However, there…

Capital assets are those properties that individuals own for personal use.It is said that a capital gain or loss has been got by viewing the difference that exists on final price of that capital and that of its base price. If a capital asset is sold at a price that is higher than its buying price. Some of the examples of capital assets include homes, businesses and other collectibles. Capital gains tax is that is levied on the income from capital gain (US Tax Reform Act of 1986). In America,…