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 ...

Decades ago, the majority of assets were either buildings and machinery – often referred to as plant, property and equipment (PPE) – or financial assets such as cash or securities. These are known as ...

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, ...

With the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Amazon.com Inc. et al v Commissioner of Internal Revenue, upholding a U.S. Tax Court ruling rejecting a broader definition of intangible ...

ITAT Mumbai held that goodwill arising from slump sale of a going concern is a depreciable intangible asset under section 32(1)(ii) for AY 2020-21, deleting ...

Bank of America's balance sheet contains more goodwill than its closest competitors, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. You can't sit on it. It doesn't generate loans or deposits. You can't ...

Asset values at major technology companies worldwide are shrinking as executives across the industry implement cost-control actions that often involve significant cash payouts to former employees and ...

A business transfer tax is the value-added tax (VAT) in many countries around the world. Some governments charge businesses a fee on every product and service that's manufactured or consumed in that ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Hans Daniel Jasperson has over a decade of experience in public policy ...