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Intangible assets have become increasingly important in the modern economy, yet many funds still prioritize book value. Traditionally, businesses have been valued based on their book value, which is ...

When advising business owners, one of the trickiest topics to explain is goodwill and intangible assets. Clients often ask: If these values don’t show up on my balance sheet, do they even exist?

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 ...

Over the years, many companies have transitioned from asset-heavy to asset-light business models, where intangible assets drive most of their growth. Tangible assets are assets that appear on a ...

Consider this scenario: A hot new startup needs cash to invest in growth. Being a young company, its founders have few tangible assets they could use to secure a loan. The company has plenty of ...

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 ...

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As a result, intangible assets as a proportion of book value for the S&P 500 has risen to almost 70%, from 40% in the late 1990s [Aberdeen Asset Management]. Even more importantly, intangible assets ...

To provide guidance for the accounting treatment of purchased and internally-generated intangible assets in compliance with gasb.No51 and University of Texas (UT ...

The strongest long-term opportunities for healthcare companies primarily fall in two industries: drug manufacturing and diagnostics and research. And all 22 of the best healthcare companies to invest ...

The high-margin, high-growth businesses that generated exponential returns over the past decade are morphing into capital-intensive models where billions of dollars in AI spending could erode returns ...