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Cash refers to money
Money

Money is anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts. The main uses of money are as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value....
 in the physical form of currency
Currency

A currency is a Medium of exchange, facilitating the trade of goods and/or Service s. It is coins and paper bills used as money. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value....
, such as banknote
Banknote

A banknote is a kind of negotiable instrument, a promissory note made by a bank payable to the bearer on demand, used as money, and in many jurisdictions is legal tender....
s and coin
Coin

A coin is a piece of hard material, usually metal or a metallic material, usually in the shape of a Disk , and most often issued by a government....
s.

In bookkeeping
Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the recording of the value of assets, liabilities, income, and expenses in the daybooks, journals, and ledgers, in which debit and credit entries are chronologically posted to record changes in value....
 and finance
Finance

The field of finance refers to the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated. Banks are the main facilitators of funding through the provision of credit, although private equity, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other organizations have become important....
, "cash" refers to current assets comprised of currency or currency equivalents that can be accessed immediately or near-immediately (as in the case of money market
Money market

In finance, the money market is the global financial market for short-term borrowing and lending. It provides short-term market liquidity funding for the global financial system....
 accounts).

Cash is a prompt or instant payment for goods and services
Goods and services

In economics, economic output is divided into physical good and intangible Service s. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility....
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Cash refers to money
Money

Money is anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts. The main uses of money are as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value....
 in the physical form of currency
Currency

A currency is a Medium of exchange, facilitating the trade of goods and/or Service s. It is coins and paper bills used as money. It is one form of money, where money is anything that serves as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a standard of value....
, such as banknote
Banknote

A banknote is a kind of negotiable instrument, a promissory note made by a bank payable to the bearer on demand, used as money, and in many jurisdictions is legal tender....
s and coin
Coin

A coin is a piece of hard material, usually metal or a metallic material, usually in the shape of a Disk , and most often issued by a government....
s.

In bookkeeping
Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the recording of the value of assets, liabilities, income, and expenses in the daybooks, journals, and ledgers, in which debit and credit entries are chronologically posted to record changes in value....
 and finance
Finance

The field of finance refers to the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated. Banks are the main facilitators of funding through the provision of credit, although private equity, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other organizations have become important....
, "cash" refers to current assets comprised of currency or currency equivalents that can be accessed immediately or near-immediately (as in the case of money market
Money market

In finance, the money market is the global financial market for short-term borrowing and lending. It provides short-term market liquidity funding for the global financial system....
 accounts).

Cash is a prompt or instant payment for goods and services
Goods and services

In economics, economic output is divided into physical good and intangible Service s. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility....
. It is considered to be the most liquid asset.

See also

  • Cash (currency)
    Cash (currency)

    The cash is a name for several historical currency used in Asia. It is applied to units used in China, Vietnam, and Madras Province in British India....
    , several historical currencies used in Asia
  • Cash register
    Cash register

    A cash register is a mechanical or electronic device for calculating and recording sales transactions, and an attached cash drawer for storing currency....
  • Cash and cash equivalents
    Cash and cash equivalents

    Cash and cash equivalents are the most liquid assets found within the asset portion of a company's balance sheet. Cash equivalents are assets that are readily convertible into cash, such as money market holdings, short-term government bonds or Treasury bills, marketable securities and commercial paper....
  • Cash flow
    Cash flow

    Cash flow is the balance of the amounts of cash being received and paid by a business during a defined period of time, sometimes tied to a specific project....
  • Cash counter
  • Cash management
    Cash management

    In United States banking, cash management, or treasury management, is a marketing term for certain services offered primarily to larger business customers....
  • Petty cash
    Petty cash

    Petty cash is often a small amount of discretionary funds in the form of cash used for expenditures where it is not sensible to make the disbursement by check, because of the inconvenience and costs of writing, signing and then cashing the check....
  • Chinese cash
    Chinese cash

    Chinese cash has several meanings:*Cash , a type of copper coin used in imperial China*Chinese cash , a historical Chinese currency unit often used on cash coins...
  • List of English words of Persian origin
    List of English words of Persian origin

    As Indo-European languages, English language and Persian language have many words of common Proto-Indo-European language origin, and many of these cognate words often have similar forms....