murchr wrote:seppuku wrote:Nope. Clothes are technically (depreciating) assets. The reason we don't include them in the balance sheet is that we expense them immediately when we buy them because they cost relatively too little to stagger. Bigger (depreciating) assets are expended over time through depreciation. If you are running a big hotel and you buy a huge amount of bedding, you'd probably put that in your asset column. If you buy two pillow cases with hares drawn on them because you think it will tickle your wife, you expense them immediately.
Disclaimer: I have never seen the inside of an accounting classroom.
So would J. Orengo value his suit as an asset? We'll... to me yes when he decides to sell it for whatever amount the buyer will give, that's the value of that suit once out of the shop.
The bedding in a hotel can be classified as an asset...customers check in.
@mawinder, land and animals are assets...so yes there are millionaires in Turkana
Actually a UN report puts the Maasai as the most wealthy of Kenyans.. that is because when you convert all their land and animals into cash... VOOOOOOMMMMM! league ya Pattni.. na si Kamlesh but the recent Gold exporter..
The problem with us is not how we measure wealth but how we live with our wealth.. hence a fella in Loresho in a 10M house a 3M car and 10M in the bank, 1M every month is a millionaire.. In a given year his/her net worth is 50M...
One Maasai sold me a zilch of his land in Kajiado..Signed with his thumb, banked 10M, adjusted his shukas, and went back to herd his cattle.. He still has 100 such plots remaining (forgeting the livestock that ends up in Kiamaiko at 20000 a bull, 4000 goats and sheep).
No car, no loans, no health issues, no beer on Fridays, no kids to take to expensive schools (they rush to nearby DEB when they feel like).
I wonder what they do with all that money..
Some of us will dispose off that land to fellow Nairobians at twice/thrice the buying price and come here and post on how we made our first million.. ;-)
Life indeed is all about perceptions and satisfaction...