Double Accounting for Goodwill: A Problem Redefined

by Martin Bloom

Book Overview

Goodwill, sometimes purchased but often more significantly internally generated, is the major constituent of the value of many listed companies. Accounting aims to provide users of financial statements with useful information, and more than fifty current International Financial Reporting Standards prescribe accounting disclosure requirements in minute detail. However, these Standards dismiss internally generated goodwill with a single brief provision...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415578523
• ISBN13: 9780415578523
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"