Intangible assets include operational assets that lack physical substance. For example, goodwill is a fixed asset, as are patents, copyrights, trademarks and franchises. A company's intangible assets ...

Historically, many organizations have conducted goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment testing by collaborating with valuation professionals and other advisers to measure fair value ...

Intangible assets are non-physical assets on a company's balance sheet. These could include patents, intellectual property, trademarks, and goodwill. Intangible assets could even be as simple as a ...

Accountants recognize three types of assets: tangible, intangible and financial. Intangible assets are ones that you can't touch, including copyrights, patents, mailing lists, trademarks, names, ...

FASB issued a new GAAP alternative Tuesday that is designed to make accounting for certain intangible assets acquired in a business combination less costly and less complicated for private companies.

These two metrics can tell you a lot. Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY) carries $40 million of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. Sometimes goodwill, especially when it's excessive, can ...

With the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Amazon.com Inc. et al v Commissioner of Internal Revenue, upholding a U.S. Tax Court ruling rejecting a broader definition of intangible ...

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These two metrics can tell you a lot. Transocean (NYSE: RIG) carries $3.1 billion of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. Sometimes goodwill, especially when it's excessive, can ...

Q: I’m considering selling my business. Over the course of more than a decade, my business’s name and logo have become well-known within the local community. How is this community awareness taken into ...