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 like patents, brands, and software are critical non-physical resources fueling competitive advantage and market valuations in today's economy. Their recognition and valuation must ...

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, ...

Businesses today have challenges capturing innovation and even more of an uphill battle with intangible asset valuation and management. These non-tangible assets are over 80% of the average business’ ...

Intangible assets are a big part of contemporary business, and many executives think innovation and related intangible assets now represent the principal basis for growth. CPA/ABVs and CFOs need to be ...

The Google/Motorola Mobility (MMI) acquisition (2011) [2] represents one of the largest and better-known intellectual property (IP)-driven acquisitions. The consensus around this US$12.5 billion deal ...

When you work as an equity analyst at an investment bank, your task is clear. It is to comb all the statements made by corporate executives, scour the industry trends and arrive at an accurate ...

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 ...

Intangible assets are becoming increasingly important to the growth, profitability, and value of companies. Beyond allowances for goodwill, some branding and IP, intangible assets are not accurately ...

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The balance sheet comprises assets, liabilities and owner's equity -- that is, the capital contributed by the owner of the business. These three items essentially represent the net worth of a business ...