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Assets which cannot be seen or touched but which still add value to a company. Intangible assets include intellectual property such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, and goodwill, which refers to ...

Intangible assets play a key role in a company’s success, yet their true value often goes unnoticed due to the traditional focus on fixed assets in business valuation models and reporting. Peter ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

A manufacturer’s intangible assets are vastly more valuable than its tangible assets; therefore, these invisible assets can be successfully leveraged for growth, while minimizing risk. At the upcoming ...

WITH ALL THE SCRUTINY that public companies get these days, you would think there’s little that isn’t known about them. But that kind of knowledge may only scratch the surface of what composes ...

The anticipated growth of the Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets market is intricately tied to the rising wave of digital transformation. As businesses globally undergo digital transformation, ...

This asset-light model creates switching costs, given 20-year contracts that have meaningful cancellation costs for owners. We expect Choice’s intangible brand asset and switching cost advantage to ...