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 ...

The valuation of customer-related intangible assets is a key element of many business appraisals. These intangibles lack physical substance but are crucial assets for a company's success, often ...

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It’s been a while since we last looked at intangible asset valuation (see The Future of the Future, KMWorld, Nov./Dec. 2013). and much has changed since that article was published. In a nutshell, here ...

This article was originally published on ETFTrends.com. An article in CFA Institute argues that intangible assets (non-physical assets such as trademarks, patents, etc.) are “increasingly critical to ...

When taking an asset-based approach to valuing a company, most financial professionals would agree that determining the market value for a company's tangible assets is pretty easy. Cash is cash.

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 ...

You can’t light them on fire. A tornado can’t blow them away. They won’t rot of mold when wet. Still, damage to intangible assets, like brand recognition and reputation, can harm a business as much as ...

Intangible assets, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks and goodwill, don't have physical substance but still contribute value to a company. Accountants record intangible assets according to their ...

Deferred tax assets can be thought of as prepaid taxes. They arise because businesses commonly keep two sets of financial records: one to show to investors and creditors, and one to show to tax ...