Intangible assets include intellectual property, brand equity, customer relationships, and proprietary technology. Companies with a cost advantage are those able to produce their goods or services at ...

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

Maintaining intangible assets is critical for businesses of any size or industry. This need has become significantly more critical in the digital age, where knowledge-based SMEs are driving economies ...

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 ...

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an invitation to comment Thursday asking for feedback on whether it should pursue a project on accounting for intangible assets and providing additional ...

Learn about acquisition adjustments, their role in M&A premiums, and how they impact asset valuation, depreciation, and corporate taxes.

(1) Includes customer and supplier relationship value, intake costs, acquisition of customer relationships, capitalized commissions and other intangibles. Adjusted Funds From Operations, or AFFO We ...

The contemporary firm operates in an economy where the locus of competitive advantage has shifted decisively from tangibles to intangibles, with the skills of people, the architecture of data, and the ...

Many of the assets that form the foundations of modern companies are overlooked, especially in the fast-paced world of software development. These assets are the keys to unlocking innovation and ...