Short-term investments are intended to be converted into cash within the longer of one year or the operating cycle of the business, and are readily convertible to cash. True or False

True

Explanation:

The reasons why many companies invest in other companies includes

1. Due to excess cash not needed immediately, so invested to earn additional income to use for operations

2. Long- term strategic reasons etc

The criteria for a current asset is that the investment must be liquid and be able to convert to cash within one year (or become a long-term investment).

Short-term investments

This is a current assets. It is also called marketable securities. This is a form of an investments made in marketable securities that can be converted easily to cash which a company plans to hold for 1 year or less than one year.

The 3 categories of short-term investments. They includes:

1. Trading securities

2. available-for-sale securities

3. Held to maturity investment.

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