Accounting for goodwill

• Main Author: Zanoni, Andrea.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge studies in accounting ; 6.
• Subjects: Goodwill (Commerce); Social responsibility of business.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Financial. > Accounting; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

Accounting for Goodwill explains the concepts and methods used to determine the valuation of companies whose intangible assets form a large component of their business. This book is an excellent source for understanding how to estimate the market value of internally generated goodwill, and how to ex...

Table of Contents:

• Goodwill : meaning and relevance
• The valuation of the internally generated goodwill and its breakdown
• Business goodwill and corporate goodwill
• Goodwill and competitive heterogeneity : system goodwill, positional goodwill and firm capabilities
• Valuation of unrecorded intangible assets and reduced goodwill
• Integration of the different breakdown approaches.