Intangible assets are increasingly critical to corporate value, yet current accounting standards make it difficult to capture them in financial statements. This information gap can affect valuations ...

All businesses are comprised of a variety of assets, both tangible and intangible. One intangible asset is goodwill. Goodwill is a term used in a general sense to represent intangible assets of a ...

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Multi-tiered entities (MTEs) offer businesses a sophisticated organizational structure with multiple layers of ownership and control. But the complex ownership structures and intercompany ...

The practice of placing brand value on company balance sheets came into vogue in the late 1980s, although there has been much debate over it since then, particularly the lack of consistency in ...