Normal business operation will cause the differences in two years of current assets. Any company in business is in business to earn money, therefore current assets are constantly changing with purchses, sales, etc. If current assets constantly stayed the same from year to year, then the business would not be doing much turnover and would be bankrupt very quickly.
A merchandising business for example buys and resales merchandise, therefore they purchase Inventory, sale the Inventory, purchase more Inventory, fluctuating the current assets constantly.
The paying of expenses also decreases assets (cash), expense are what keeps a business in business.
Current assets are different from current liabilities in this sense that current assets are usable in current fiscal year to generate revenue while current liabilities are all those amount or items which are already used in current fiscal year and amount is still payable in current year.
Permanent current assets are current assets that are replaced with like assets within one year.
yes in the year in which they need to be dissolved in that year those assets can become current assets.
All those assets which is usable within one fiscal year is called current assets like cash, inventories etc while all those assets which are usable for more than one fiscal year is called non-current or long term assets like building, machinery etc.
Current assets are those assets which is usable in current fiscal year while total assets includes assets other then current assets like long term assets as formula showTotal assets = current assets + fixed assets
Current assets are those assets which are usable within one fiscal year of business and converted within one fiscal year.
fixed assets are those assets used for more than one fiscal year while current assets only used for one fiscal year.
Current Ratio = Current Assets / Current Liabilities Current Assets : all assets which is utilized in one fiscal year like cash, bill receivable, inventory etc Current Liablities vise versa of Current Assets.
Assets have of two types Current Assets Non-Current/ Fixed Assets Current Assets are those which company utilizes in one fiscal year for example, material, Fixed assets are those assets which company utilizes for more than one fiscal year for example, machinery, plant, equipment etc
Current assets are those items which are usable during current year while current liabilities are those payments which are payable within one fiscal year.
current assets areflexible in nature ' easy encash fixed assets are fixed in nature ;non-moving assets are not easy to encash regulary [by:naruto akiem]
(total assets current year + total assets prior year)/2 total assets current year plus total assets prior year then divide that total by two to find the average. Dont over-think this.