What is meaning of ficticious asset

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / prasanna11149@yahoo.co.in

Fictitious Assets are not assets which are tangible and
visible like buildings, machinery , computer but the
expenditure on some activity which is considered as a
Capital expenditure instead of Revenue expenditure. When
expenditure incurred amount is not debited to Profit and
Loss A/C but shown as Fictitious asset and over a period
the amount is writtenoff or debited to Pand L account. For
example Share issue expenses by a Corporate, This is not
debited to P& L A/c in the year in which it is incurred but
debited in instalments as decided by Management over few
years.

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / suresh

these are assets not represented by tangible possession or
property. example of preliminary expenses discount on issue
of shares, debit balance in the profit and loss account
when shown on the assets side in the balance sheet.

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / just venkey.....

fictitious asset
Definition
Asset created by an accounting entry (and included under
assets in the balance sheet) that has no tangible existence
or realizable value but represents actual cash expenditure.
The purpose of creating a fictitious asset is to account
for expenses (such as those incurred in starting a
business) that cannot be placed under any normal account
heading. Fictitious assets are written off as soon as
possible against the firm's earnings.

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / jata shankar dubey

The meaning of fictitious assets is the assets which is not tangible in nature but the actual expense shown in the balance sheet.Example-debit balance of the p&L account which is shown in the balance sheet,misslinious expenses shown in the balance sheet.The fictitious assets written off after a period of time.

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / karthik

Assest which which is having capital expenditure in nature
which does not have any realizable value know as fictious
assetes.

Ex:Preliminary expenses, Discount on issue of sahres.Etc

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / ramana

fictious assets are those assets which are not represented
by tangable possession or property eg,priliminary
expensis, dr balance of p/l a/c

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / lokesh

fictious assets are those assets which are not represented
by tangable possession or property eg,priliminary
expensis, dr balance of p/l a/c

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / madhulika2011

Fictitious assets are those assets which are created or brought into accounts books by accounting entry, in other words these assets are not tangible assets in the sense that fictitious assets cannot be seen and also fictitious assets have no real value unlike intangible assets like goodwill which have value attached to them. Some Examples of fictitious assets are Discount which is given by the company when it issue shares, Preliminary expenses etc….

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / ahmad ali

Any preliminary or incidental expenses which could not be
showm in single year but similarily in many years,are
called ficticious asset.It is use for justify the financial
statement sound and fair.

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What is meaning of ficticious asset..

Answer / sandhya

it is a asset recorded on the balancesheet of a business
which as value

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