Families can also reduce their reportable assets by purchasing a refrigerator, washer-dryer or new stereo.

It has also reduced its assets to $90 billion from $107 billion, as of April 30.

Japanese banks, however, are struggling to clean up their balance sheets by reducing their assets, and higher interest rates help in that process.

HBJ, whose primary focus was producing school books, needed to reduce its assets in order to avoid a bankruptcy.

In taking yesterday's write-down, Viacom reduced its assets by 27 percent, to $49 billion.

Subsequent down years have reduced the fund's assets under management to $681M as of December 2010.

One way for the woman to reduce her taxes would be to reduce her assets by making gifts to beneficiaries.

Loans to keep the company operating reduced its net assets to zero.

They wanted to reduce their assets to cash.

Nobel has three years to reduce its assets and pay off Nordbanken.