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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 ...

Arantxa Monroy of BC&B says trademarks do not merely assert a legal right; they underpin reputation, attract investment, and ...

Goodwill is an accounting term for the premium paid over fair market value in a business acquisition. Goodwill is an intangible asset that represents the value of things like brand reputation and ...

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 ...

An asset constitutes anything that holds monetary value, whether current or future, to a person or organization. Businesses, governments and non-profits all own assets. So do many people. An asset is ...

Last summer's public spat between Aubrey Drake Graham and Kendrick Lamar Duckworth was, for me personally, thoroughly ...

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 ...

IT asset management is the process of accounting for the location and condition of all business assets. The goal is to optimize asset use, so that all asset lifecycles are as long as possible and the ...