Accountants recognize three types of assets: tangible, intangible and financial. Intangible assets are ones that you can't touch, including copyrights, patents, mailing lists, trademarks, names, ...

If you're interested in investing, you've probably read quite a few articles that say "do your homework" before buying a stock. Reading and understanding a balance sheet is part of that homework.

Trademarks are valuable. A company's brand name, logos, slogans and designs help customers identify its products and tell them apart from competing products. Since trademarks hold future economic ...

The CFA Institute released a paper Wednesday urging the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board to require more detailed disclosures of intangible assets ...

Learn about acquisition adjustments, their role in M&A premiums, and how they impact asset valuation, depreciation, and corporate taxes.

Businesses today have challenges capturing innovation and even more of an uphill battle with intangible asset valuation and management. These non-tangible assets are over 80% of the average business’ ...

Assets and revenue are very different things. For one, they appear on completely different parts of a company's financial statements. Assets are listed on the balance sheet, and revenue is shown on a ...

Bank of America's balance sheet contains more goodwill than its closest competitors, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. You can't sit on it. It doesn't generate loans or deposits. You can't ...