In a technology M&A deal, whether you are acquiring or selling a tech or software business, valuation rarely hinges on a single dimension. Financial performance, growth efficiency, and cash flow ...

When taking an asset-based approach to valuing a company, most financial professionals would agree that determining the market value for a company's tangible assets is pretty easy. Cash is cash.

As digital transformation accelerates, intellectual property (IP) is hardening into a core driver of corporate value.

The valuation of customer-related intangible assets is a key element of many business appraisals. These intangibles lack physical substance but are crucial assets for a company's success, often ...

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

Goodwill is an intangible asset that arises when one company acquires another and pays more than the fair value of its net identifiable assets. Goodwill is an intangible asset created when a company ...

Multi-tiered entities (MTEs) offer businesses a sophisticated organizational structure with multiple layers of ownership and control. But the complex ownership structures and intercompany ...

The following column is written by Andrew D. Galbraith, CFA, MBA, director with HealthCare Appraisers. Accounting Standard Codification 350 – Intangibles, Goodwill and Other Indefinite Lived Assets ...

The Google/Motorola Mobility (MMI) acquisition (2011) [2] represents one of the largest and better-known intellectual property (IP)-driven acquisitions. The consensus around this US$12.5 billion deal ...

The most recent NewVantage Data And Analytics Global Leadership (DAGL) Survey revealed that nearly every company surveyed reports delivering some measurable value with their data, up from only half of ...