Any sum of money in general (monetary capital). – Money that is generally intended for profitable, interest-bearing investment (earning capital). – Money used for investment, namely for the – construction, – expansion or – improvement of tangible assets that serve to generate future earnings (physical assets: physical capital, real capital, capital stock) (fixed assets; invested capital). – In relation to a business: all assets required to produce output (assets owned or used in operating a business). – The class of persons and enterprises that has power of disposal over working capital and/or ownership of physical capital (financial capital; capital economics: a sociological term). – Company capital (equity, company capital), often subdivided into core capital – such as paid-in money, open reserves – and supplementary capital, such as unrealized reserves); cf. for Germany the precise list of individual items in § 10 KWG. – See entity, financial resources, financial oligarchy, formal capital, durable goods, infrastructure capital, investment, capital supply, capital intensity, capital buffer, countercyclical, capital stock, leasing business, misochrematie, assets, interest allocation function, forced convertible bond. – Cf. Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of January 2002, p. 43 (on the concept of core capital), BaFin Annual Report 2009, p. 48 (new rules for core capital and supplementary capital).
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