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 ...

As businesses shift toward knowledge-based industries and digital innovation, intangible assets are becoming increasingly important in financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and overall ...

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 ...

To appropriately record the amortization of an intangible asset, you need to know the useful life of the item in question, how much it cost to acquire and whether it will have any resale value after ...

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WITH ALL THE SCRUTINY that public companies get these days, you would think there’s little that isn’t known about them. But that kind of knowledge may only scratch the surface of what composes ...

New research has highlighted the importance of strong brands, with intangible assets now accounting for around half of global enterprise value (EV). For policymakers and management accountants alike, ...