As businesses shift toward knowledge-based industries and digital innovation, intangible assets are becoming increasingly important in financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and overall ...

Amid the flurry of acquisition activity that took place during the fourth quarter of 2012, the focus of many advisers, executives and deal teams was getting transactions done before the clock struck ...

Included in the many proposals recently put forward to fix the banking crisis are several accounting-related ones of which the most prominent are the numerous calls to revise or reverse mark-to-market ...

FASB issued a new GAAP alternative Tuesday that is designed to make accounting for certain intangible assets acquired in a business combination less costly and less complicated for private companies.

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The Private Company Council, the standard-setter for privately held companies, voted Tuesday to finalize an alternative that would exempt private companies from separately recognizing and measuring ...

As the acquisition of physician practices has once again become a hot topic, hospitals may be considering payment for certain intangible assets. For regulatory purposes, these transactions must remain ...

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IMGCAP(1)]Last December, based on a recommendation from the Private Company Council, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a notable accounting standards update for intangible assets in ...

FASB is seeking comments on whether it should make changes to the accounting for certain identifiable intangible assets acquired in a business combination and subsequent accounting for goodwill. In an ...