what are long term investments 
a long term investment is an account on the asset side of a company s balance sheet that represents the company s investments including stocks bonds real estate and cash long term investments are assets that a company intends to hold for more than a year the long term investment account differs largely from the short term investment account in that short term investments will most likely be sold whereas the long term investments will not be sold for years and in some cases may never be sold being a long term investor means that you are willing to accept a certain amount of risk in pursuit of potentially higher rewards and that you can afford to be patient for a longer period of time it also suggests that you have enough capital available to afford to tie up a set amount for a long period of time investopedia sydney saporitolong term investments explaineda common form of long term investing occurs when company a invests largely in company b and gains significant influence over company b without having a majority of the voting shares in this case the purchase price would be shown as a long term investment 