When advising business owners, one of the trickiest topics to explain is goodwill and intangible assets. Clients often ask: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A classified balance sheet breaks down assets, liabilities and shareholders' equity in classes and subcategories. Depending on whether office equipment breaks the capitalization threshold, equipment ...

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 ...