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Company Asset Management

Lead Change Blog

Computers, tools of the trade, vehicles, and buildings are the best examples of fixed assets. In a nutshell, a fixed asset is anything that a company buys intending to use for more than one year. The challenge that most companies encounter is in deciding what to do when it is time to get rid of assets.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ. rate for other companies.