How to Use current assets in a Sentence

current assets

plural noun
  • High rates can leave money locked into a current asset instead of flowing to the next good idea.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
  • This increases your current assets which in turn boosts your working capital.
    — Block Advisors Contributor, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Also, take steps to protect and enhance your biggest current asset — your ability to earn money.
    — Liz Weston | Nerdwallet.com, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2019
  • The chapters will be able to use current assets to provide services to people with ALS.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 13 June 2023
  • Still, there is chatter that the Magic could, eventually, be forced to cash in on their current assets to look toward the future.
    — Sean Deveney, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The current ratio is defined as the ratio of current assets to current liabilities at fiscal year-end.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Dallas’ current assets to land a major roster upgrade appear limited.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And if current assets churn off a dividend, lawmakers are allowed to set their paydays on autopilot to reinvest in the same firm, growing that footprint.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 9 Mar. 2026
  • While bankruptcy often allows a debtor to wipe out debts or legal judgments, Jones will continue to owe the families even after his current assets are gone.
    — Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 14 June 2024
  • Chief among their current assets whose qualities are at risk of being overlooked is Brennan Johnson, the club’s most reliable goalscorer over the past year.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Liabilities due in the next 12 months far exceed current assets and shareholder funds are negative, usually not a good sign.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • To calculate a company's current ratio, go to its balance sheet and divide current assets by current liabilities.
    — Dallas News, 7 July 2019
  • It is calculated by subtracting your current liabilities from your current assets.
    — Quora, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • If using your current assets tagged for retirement to make the purchase, and using future work income to pay for the renovations will prevent you from getting to your magic number, then don’t buy the house.
    — Peter Dunn, USA TODAY, 7 June 2019
  • Creating a financing arm of Gaucho has the potential to become larger than the Company's current assets.
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
  • And if Brooklyn can pull it off, whether by flipping current assets, sending out cash considerations or other means, Marks said the team would likely take the best player available on its draft board.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The industry power ranking also charts firms’ annual returns for 2025 and their current assets under management.
    — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Wells Fargo will also have to improve risk management, governance, and board oversight practices, and cannot increase its current asset size until the Fed is convinced of the improvements.
    — David Dayen, New Republic, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Instead of accruing credit and strengthening their hand, the Palestinians have squandered current assets with no guarantee of favorable future returns.
    — Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The museum raises and spends about $5 million a year and holds current assets of approximately $20 million, according to federal tax filings.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The plan to distribute up to $5 billion in grants will represent an increase of about $1 billion over what the Endowment would be projected to award in the next 15 years, based on its current assets.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Your credit score, income history, debt-to-income ratio, current assets and liquidity will all be considered by the institution providing the financing.
    — Aviva Pinto, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Too high of a ratio may point to unnecessary investment in current assets, failure to collect receivables or bloated inventory—all factors that negatively affect earnings.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • That has an unfavorable effect on the company’s current ratio (current assets to current liabilities) and quick ratio (cash to current liabilities).
    — Carrie Brandon Elliott, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Except that less than four months before the current asset-purchase program is due to end, the Governing Council hasn’t provided any details on the scale of stimulus beyond 2017.
    — Jana Randow, Bloomberg.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • These were situations where a company could be purchased at prices meaningfully below a conservative estimate of liquidation value (Ben Graham defined this value as current assets minus all liabilities).
    — Jeff Henriksen, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • How to Calculate Working Capital To calculate working capital, subtract your company’s current liabilities from its current assets.
    — Block Advisors Contributor, Forbes.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Working Capital The most effective definition of working capital = current assets (excluding cash and investments) – current liabilities (excluding debt).
    — Vipul Bansal, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Your debt-to-equity ratio (total liabilities / total stakeholder equity) and working capital (current assets – current liabilities) are additional cash flow KPIs to measure.
    — Jeffrey Bartel, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022

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