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Aktivpositionen

English translation: asset accounts

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German term or phrase:Aktivpositionen
English translation:asset accounts
Entered by: Ted Wozniak

11:34 May 3, 2007
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Accounting
German term or phrase: Aktivpositionen
"weder ein direktes Urteil über die Werthaltigkeit aller getätigten Investitionen (Aktivpositionen der Bilanz) möglich ist noch ein Überblick über die von der Gesellschaft eingegangenen Verbindlichkeiten besteht"
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asset accounts
Explanation:
And be careful with "Werthaltigkeit", German WPs look at that creature as the opposite side of the same coing as that seen by Anglo-Saxon WPs. In English, we look at "impairment" (loss of value) rather than the Werthaltigkeit (i.e. no loss of value).
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Ted Wozniak
United States
Local time: 21:26
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asset accounts


Explanation:
And be careful with "Werthaltigkeit", German WPs look at that creature as the opposite side of the same coing as that seen by Anglo-Saxon WPs. In English, we look at "impairment" (loss of value) rather than the Werthaltigkeit (i.e. no loss of value).

Ted Wozniak
United States
Local time: 21:26
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PRO pts in category: 762
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Steffen Walter: or "asset items" / True but I suspect that "Posten" are meant here.
8 mins
  -> Items are Posten, not Positionen
agree  Julia Lipeles
28 mins
agree  Alison Schwitzgebel: spot on
49 mins
agree  RobinB: whereby Werthaltigkeit (here) = recoverability
1 hr
  -> thanks Robin, you are - as usual - "spot on"
agree  Nadine Kahn: with assets
2 hrs
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