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 a big part of contemporary business, and many executives think innovation and related intangible assets now represent the principal basis for growth. CPA/ABVs and CFOs need to be ...

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 ...

Income is perhaps the single most important measurement of a business's success in running its operations, but it is inaccurate and misleading unless the business records revenues and expenses in the ...

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, ...

In merger and acquisition deals, often a critical component of a target company’s valuation is its intangible assets – trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, industrial designs, products in ...

Tax cost recovery methods allow businesses to reduce their overall tax liabilities. This is usually accomplished through depreciation of capital investments. The Internal Revenue Service allows such ...

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Techniques for valuing intellectual property continue to develop, especially as access to information becomes easier and more efficient. The practice of valuing intellectual property has only been ...