Discover how amortization and impairment affect intangible assets such as patents and goodwill, and understand their impact on a company's balance sheet.

Mention business “assets,” and most people think of actual physical items, such as equipment and real estate-;things that are tangible. But intangible assets--such as copyrights, trademarks, a brand, ...

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Intangible assets include operational assets that lack physical substance. For example, goodwill is a fixed asset, as are patents, copyrights, trademarks and franchises. A company's intangible assets ...

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EVEN WITH THE GUIDANCE IN FASB STATEMENT NO. 142, th e useful life of certain intangible assets is difficult to judge, particularly assets that involve contracted or other legally set terms. Companies ...

As a business owner, your tangible costs are the obvious ones. Buying a computer, paying an employee and reserving rooms for a training seminar are all tangible costs. Intangible costs such as wasted ...

As nonprofit leaders, changing the calendar year signals one of the most critical periods in our work: annual reporting on impact and new year goal setting. It's a time when we compile the results of ...

Sean Speer and Robert Asselin are senior fellows at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. They are co-authors of the new Public Policy Forum paper entitled, A New ...

Electronic music is added to the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, acknowledgement that the artform is shaping France's ...