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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assets refer to resources that can be converted into cash. Learn how assets work, the various types of assets, how to determine an asset's value and more.

See the affect appraisal capital has on company balance sheets when asset appraisals exceed book values, and explore its ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you're interested in investing, you've probably read quite a few articles that say "do your homework" before buying a stock. Reading and understanding a balance sheet is part of that homework.

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight Although there is no doubt that brands, IP and intangible assets are valuable, ...