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When advising business owners, one of the trickiest topics to explain is goodwill and intangible assets. Clients often ask: If these values don’t show up on my balance sheet, do they even exist?

Unlike physical assets such as machinery or real estate, intangible assets lack a physical presence. They include things like brand recognition, customer loyalty, patents, copyrights and business ...

Intangible assets have become increasingly important in the modern economy, yet many funds still prioritize book value. Traditionally, businesses have been valued based on their book value, which is ...

How valuable are a company’s IT systems, employee skills, culture? For many, they are worth far more than the physical and financial assets that can be tallied on a balance sheet. Measuring the value ...

To provide guidance for the accounting treatment of purchased and internally-generated intangible assets in compliance with gasb.No51 and University of Texas (UT ...

Although not always easy to quantify, intangible assets are one of the primary sources of strong competitive advantages for businesses and a key source of economic moats. Patents are a legal barrier ...

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Consider this scenario: A hot new startup needs cash to invest in growth. Being a young company, its founders have few tangible assets they could use to secure a loan. The company has plenty of ...

International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) has been named the Philippines’ leading company for intangible asset ...

The estate of Michael Jackson recently won a major victory against the Internal Revenue Service in a valuation dispute where the Estate and the IRS’s valuations of three intangible assets, including ...