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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

One of Bank of America's (BAC +1.28%) competitive disadvantages is the amount of goodwill the $2.15 trillion bank holds on its balance sheet. Classified as an asset, goodwill is little more than an ...

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.

COCA-COLA is worth $79.2 billion, according to Interbrand, a consultant. That does not seem excessive for the brand responsible for making Santa Claus look so jolly. But neither that number nor ...

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 ...