It's an asset. But you can't sell it. So it carries a discount. That $100,000 country club membership? Yes, it's an asset. But you can only sell it through the club's "brokerage department," for which they will take a hefty 30% commission. So yes, you paid $100k upfront, plus monthly dues for years. And yes, it's an asset. It's just not like 100 shares of AMZN, which you can sell in 5 seconds through your broker. When you do go to sell a restricted asset, you have hoops to jump through, just to begin the process of selling, let alone suffer a restricted-buyer marketplace. That country club doesn't allow just anyone to bid on a new membership; applicants must first pass the sniff test of The Five Blue-Haired Old Ladies before they can even think about writing that check. Any asset that is restricted like this, for personal or business accounting, carried a big discount, and all kinds of caveats around what its actual value is.
And yeah, you won't miss this club.
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Finance allah shmoop what are hidden assets Come and listen
to a story about a man named did poor mountaineer
Barely kept family Remember them Beverly hillbillies never watched nick
at nite Well ask your parents Yes So jet owned
forty acres and a mule and had been farming well
forever Then one day he was shooting at a raccoon
You think that's what that is When up from the
ground came a bubbling crude oil that is texas tea
black gold You know the song So yeah jed stumbled
on an oil or a goldmine and hundreds of millions
of dollars later that hidden asset like the oil was
hidden from his farm He just didn't know it was
there that he was shooting at a coon and gave
him a really nice swimming hole in nine o two
one oh seriously great hidden assets happen all the time
in corporate america as well A patent for flying robot
cars that the company didn't realize it had which suddenly
became relevant when you know tracking drones became like a
thing Broadcast rights attached to a tv station acquisition where
new technology lets cell phone spectrum clamp on and produce
Extremely clear phone calls while that asset was hidden No
not so much Well a change in tax law such
that the huge tax losses in the bankrupt company and
wired for scrap are now suddenly age enormous tax deduction
The acquirer won't pay taxes now for two years because
of it well asset don't remain hidden very long Usually
companies have to disclose where they find value if for
no other reason than that it usually goose is their
stock price and everyone likes being rich right Okay so
some people's idea of riches having eighty acres and two
mules But you know that's just jet good and listen
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