Assets

Current assets: Make money for companies.

Liquidity: A company's ability to meet its financial obligations.

Marketability: A company's ability to liquidate an asset to cash within 12 months.

Noncurrent assets: Long-term and cannot easily convert into cash.

Fixed assets: Noncurrent assets that have a useful life of more than a year.

Assets are valuable items a business owns that help in operations and growth. Balance sheets list assets first.