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What is a "Fictitious asset"  ?

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Question added by VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.
Date Posted: 2014/10/26

An asset entry recorded on the balance sheet of a business that has value to the business, but that does not correspond to a real asset or have a resale value. Fictitious assets are used to keep track of assets that cannot be recorded under normal accounting categories, such as prepayments or deferred revenue

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

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.

Khaled Mohee Eldeen Abbas Mahmoud
by Khaled Mohee Eldeen Abbas Mahmoud , Chartered Accountant # 10465 , Self-employed

I agree with most of answers provided

padmakumar pathiyil
by padmakumar pathiyil , Marketing Consultant , Management Consultancy

Fictitious Assets are assets just created by an accounting entry which does not have a tangible existence or resalable value. It only represents actual cash expenditure.

 

Kamran Anjum
by Kamran Anjum , Head of Internal Audit , Rafhan Maize Products Company limited, Faisalabad, Pakistan, Ingredion Incorporated Gmbh

Asset created by an accounting entry that has no tangible existence or realizable value but represents actual cash expenditure. Fictitious assets are written off as soon as possible against the firm's earnings.

Ayman Esa Mustafa Farrag
by Ayman Esa Mustafa Farrag , مدير مالي , شركة الصفوف

Fictitious assets are used to keep track of assets that cannot be recorded under normal accounting categories, such as prepayments or deferred revenues.

Rajesh Agarwal
by Rajesh Agarwal , Chief Finance Officer , Movit Products Limited

Ficticious assets are created by of an accounting entry without tangible existence. It may or may not be the result of cash expenditure.

georgei assi
by georgei assi , مدير حسابات , المجموعة السورية

Phantom assets are assets and raise the value of the fixed assets and traded more than their true value and increase the assets that either fake or non-existent raised the value of the underlying asset in order to raise the value of the enterprise in the market

Malik Khalid Mahmood
by Malik Khalid Mahmood , Regional Finance Manager , Leosons International FZ LLC

deffered advertisement expenses, discount on issue of shares or debentures

The expenses which cannot be charged to the same year and are deffered to next years.

FITAH MOHAMED
by FITAH MOHAMED , Financial Manager , FUEL AND ENERGY CO for transportion petroleum materials

AGREE WITH MRS SREEDEVI & MR VINOD 

mohamed Hakim CMA CPA Candidate
by mohamed Hakim CMA CPA Candidate , Accounting Manager , Andersen saudi arabia

Good question and answers  

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